Elsy’s Stay at Home Mom Blog

Saturdays T-Ball Game was great.  The kids did so good.  I was very impressed and I think the rest of the parents were as well.  My son looked like a pro even though he is only 4.  I think the Round Rock Youth Baseball does a great job in getting the seasons together and selecting excellent volunteers like my husband to teach the kids the basics.

My husband is enjoying himself with the teaching of the game.  He is really good at it and the parents express much appreciation.  He is even thinking of volunteering next season.

All the members of the 4U White Sox did great.  Even the timid ones and the younger of the players were at bat and did great.  I am so happy for all the kids and their parents.

This Saturday is our first T-Ball Game.  I am so exited but at the same time a little nervous.  I tell myself and the rest of the parents that at this level is not a competitive sport and we don’t keep score even.

But sometimes I get nervous because I don’t know how much the 4 year olds know about scores and winning.  I know that Mikey gets really happy when we pretend to play connect 4 and I tell him he won even thought he really does not get the concept of the game.

Maybe he should loose one or two connect 4 games and I can try to explain to him about winning and loosing. 

Any suggestions on this topic would be appreciated.

My 4 year old started T-Ball this month and it has been a blast so far.  The Round Rock Youth Baseball League started 4U last season.  4U is T-ball for 4 year olds.

My husband volunteered to be the team Head Coach and he is enjoying himself as well.  I have to admit it was a bit hard at the beginning but I feel fine now after a couple of weeks and Opening Ceremonies out of the way.

I know that my son loves baseball and I could not wait till this season began to sign him up.  He loves the game, what can I say.  It’s fun to see all the little ones standing in front of the T and swing.  Some hit the ball others miss it the first time.  But it is such a blessing to see my son enjoy himself

Last summer, we had a fruit and vegetable garden in our house.  In "trying" to organize myself,  I came across this picture of the only watermelon we were able to grow the first summer we had our garden.

I have to say that it was very juicy and sweet.

I could not believe how this delicious watermelon came to be.  Hines the reason for the picture.  One day sitting in the back porch eating store bought watermelon my parents and I were chatting about anything and everything as the little ones played out in the back yard.  My Mom started throwing the seeds on the yard and every time she would say "maybe this one will grow".  Any ways to make this short story short, about end of August I think it was we were cutting the watermelon and I was taking pictures before we all jumped in to enjoy.

It was GOOD!

That’s right, we are buying another house. We are moving up. We will be getting about 1,000 sq more with our new house which is to be built by April no later then early May.

Some people may say that this is not the time to buy but we have thought about this for about 6+ months and it is the best time for us to buy. You see, unlike California we never experienced a bubble here in Texas so there is nothing to burst in the real estate economy here. Our first house is paid off and we have that to fall back on if we need to but I don’t see that happening.

We are all excited about the new house, the floor plan is beautiful and we are getting some things that my husband and I always thought it would be nice to have like a nice long covered porch, a balcony, game room, 4 1/4 baths and 5 rooms for our growing family. We also get a formal dining room and a study. I always wanted a fireplace and I am getting it. Another thing that we always thought to be nice was a nice front door, one of those fancy ones and we are getting one as well.

I could go on but it is almost mid-night and I want to sleep some tonight! But I will finish with this: It feels nice to have a house that one could stay there for years to come and have plenty of space for everyone.

Mikey’s birthday party invitations are out. I have invited all 14 kids from his school and their siblings of course. I also invited some of his other friends from church. His party is a costume party and the feedback I am getting from the Moms is great. They all tell me it’s a great idea and that their kids love dressing up. One Mom said her little 4 year old is debating whether to dress up as Tinker bell, Cinderella or Bell and I thought that was cute.

Mikey will either dress up as a Pirate or Batman. We still have not decided. Genesis will dress up as Snow White and Danny will be Superman.

This time around I will buy all the food instead of cooking because I want to make sure the kids keep busy. I will have different stations with cool activities. I have a table with a nice train set that goes around a city and parks and roads and it is awesome. I have another table where they can color, and yet another table with building blocks. I will also have a jumper and of course the Pinata. I will also have a table with play dough and cookie cutters and other shapes they can use.

There will be a corner where they can all take a pictures and at the end of the party they get to take their picture home with them. They can do group pictures or singles. I will definitely take a group picture for Mikey to remember this special day.

This is going to be so much fun!

It is nice to have a blog that is a money making blog. I love to write but I love more getting paid for writing. I write things about myself, my kids, my family in general, the place I live in, Texas, my likes and dislikes and everything else. I started putting text links on my blog and now I see the money that is making me. It took me more time then it took my husband but I’m seeing the results now.

At first it was a couple of dollars a month about $2 to $4 but I am now at $35 a month. My husband started the same way and now he is making about $1,000 or more a month. Mind you, this is extra money that is not relied on because it is outside his regular work. He spends no more then 3 hours a month if that writing about things he likes and doing research and stuff. Not bad, I say!

I just hope I can get there soon. It seems like the monthly income doubles every month and I can’t wait to get where he is at.

It is a really good feeling to make money for doing something one enjoys!

It’s been about a year and a half since I’ve been home with the kids and I feel like a pro. It did take me a while to feel at ease with staying home and not working but now that It’s been that long, I love it. I love getting up in the morning and making breakfast for my kiddos. They all seem to like different things and I know exactly what to cook for each of them.

Bath time is another one of my favorite things to do. I take them all inside my room after getting their clothes together and their diapers, powder and lotion for after the bath. They help me by taking off their clothes and placing them in the dirty hamper. Mikey is the first one in the tub and Genesis jumps in after I take off her hair spongie. The little one needs help getting in. They love hanging out together in the tub and playing with their toys.

I start with Danny since he is the youngest and after washing him down and rinsing him I cover him with nice warm towels and start getting him ready. He really likes the lotion on his cute little legs and arms. After I put on his clothes he is ready to go. Genesis takes longer due to her hair. After she gets out of the tub drying her hair and combing it takes a few more minutes then the boys.

All this time Mikey is having a ball! He pretends he is swimming and makes funny noises. I think he is the easiest of them all. But like I said earlier, I feel like a pro. I have the bath time down. Maybe that is the reason why I enjoy it so much but not as much as my kids I can tell you that!

I ask myself, what have I done to my world(society), my home(earth), my family(future generation). I was reading an article on the Austin American Statesman by a man named Jonah Goldberg, who writes about why he is anti-abortion. The bottom line was that he is not sure about when fetuses are truly human beings and being unsure makes him not want to take the chance of killing an unborn human being.

This article started it all for me this morning. After reading that I began thinking about everything that I have strong feelings about. For example global warming, abortion, and war.

This is not to say that these are the only things that take time in my thoughts. But when I think about global warming and recall the stupid and the ignorant things we all have done at one time or another I can’t help it but feel guilt. I remember that some time ago leaving the bank a group of college students came up to me and asked me for a few minutes of my time to talk about our environment. I thought to myself, “I really don’t have time” as I said “No, I’m sorry” and walked straight past them and into my car. Maybe if I would have listened with an open mind then…….maybe, just maybe things would be a tiny bit different. I look around and see that the awareness of global warming is starting to see more alive but is it enough. The members of my family are doing our share by buying fuel efficient vehicles, sharing a vehicle when possible, using energy efficient bulbs, using fans in every room, turning lights off when not needed and things like that but then I look around and see what our community, local government and federal government are doing or better said “not doing” I get discouraged. I don’t give up but I loose faith in our society. I only hope that we are not too late and that we can still know that our children and our children’s’ children would see the beautiful things we’ve seen nature give us.

Then is the abortion issue. I believe that there are a few reasons why a woman should have the choice to terminate a pregnancy in the early weeks. For example, if it would threaten her life, conception following rape and things like that but even then I think it should be done on a case by case basis. I think that people in general should be held accountable for the mistakes they make. If a teenage girl wants to have sex and gets pregnant, this is not a reason she should have an abortion. If she opened her legs, let her be responsible for ‘her mistake”. If we continue to give our kids a way out by giving them permission and rights, they will never learn the lesson. Instead I think we should teach them about being responsible and owning up when a mistake is made. Lets teach our kids how important a life is and what a huge responsibility it is to bring a child into this world, maybe then they would think twice about having unprotected sex.

When a wife is being unfaithful to her husband and becomes pregnant outside her marriage and society says, “You have the right to get ride of the evidence of your unfaithfulness.” What really are we gaining? You may think that I am going overboard but It is really hard for me to think that a faithful wife, responsible teenager, loving mother would ever be pro-abortion. I just can’t help to think of these people as being unfaithful wives, irresponsible teenagers and people that don’t like to go to restaurants and hear a family at the next table with 3 very happy and goofy kids have a nice family day out. But like I said, I also believe that there should be help for those who get raped and conceive and those loving mothers that find out after their second child that her life is threaten if she goes thru with a pregnancy and there is a chance of leaving her husband and her two young children without a mother.

Life is so precious, one only needs to think about the things we have seen and experienced within one week to know that. The beautiful trees, the breeze, the sun going down, a child’s’ laugh, a mothers’ song, the face of a new father, wrinkles on the face of a loved grandmother. Why would anyone deprive anyone else from those things. We don’t have that right. We don’t have the right from terminating anyone from having the chance to Life.

Now, the war issue is a long time coming. We, and by that I mean the human race have been at war for many reasons in our history. Some reasons have been political, money, hate, religion, freedom, ignorance and in small occasions to defend. Politicians now a days go to war so that their pockets can get bigger no matter how many lives are lost. In our history, hate and religion have played a role. We have also seen freedom and ignorance. There is the political reasons, “Well my sugar Daddy nation is at war with this other country, I have nothing against them but I’ll go to war against them as well so that my sugar Daddy is happy”.

The only war I think should ever be fought is to defend. To defend our family, our lives not favor from other nations or potential wealth or our egos. But unfortunately this is the one that is not fought.

Why then, do we allow wars? I have a theory! I think wars start inside ourselves. When we don’t treat others like we should. When we assume the worse in others. When we are ignorant about other cultures, religions, races, and status. When we have not learned to say “I am sorry please forgive me” or “This is my fault, I will fix it”. When we refrain ourselves from seeing beyond our immediate circle and forget about our brothers and sisters around the world. You see, if we all thought of human beings as brothers and sisters maybe then we would sympathized, forgive and understand each other for who we are. Accept the fact that we are all different, speak different language and have a different way of seeing things, maybe then our differences would not bother us as much or make us uncomfortable.

I saw a movie once. It was called “Pay it forward” I believe. It was basically doing good things for people you meet and hoping that they would pay going forward and doing good things to those they meet and so on. You may think it’s cheesy, but it really isn’t. Have you ever done something simple for someone but meant so much for that person? Has someone done something for you that was a life saver? How did it make you feel? It makes me feel wonderful to know that I was at the right place at the right time. Wouldn’t it be nice to be that person everywhere you go? The person that is at the right place at the right time every time. What if we all were that person?

Only then would Love, Peace, Safety, Freedom, Family, Health and a Future mean so much more then the definitions of these words imply.

If we all realized that we are the ones that make up society, that own the earth, and that our future generations are in our hands maybe then there would be change. The vast ocean holding such powerful strength is contained by one grain of sand at a time. One by one we can all make a change for our future and stop the problems which are the same issues that our fathers faced once and for all.

I keep saying this but I really love Texas. Last week I helped out in Mikey’s class and realized something cool. Last week was family week at his school and my son brought in a family picture to share with the class. Mrs. Bev asked the kids about the Daddys. She asked “What does Daddy do?”. The whole class answered, “He works”. When she asked “What does Mommy do?”. They all answered, “She stays home”. That is when I realized this is the place I want to raise my children for sure.

All my life while working very hard in California I told myself that when my husband and I were ready to have kids I would raise them. I hated the idea of paying some stranger to raise my children. I believe that raising children it’s a huge responsibility and did not want to have someone else do it instead of me, their mother. With that in mind, I also knew that California was not a place that would allow my husband and I raise three children on one income among other reasons like a fast paced stressful life, the “get the biggest and better of everything no matter what the cost” mentality that one finds there. The good morals and values that I desired for my children were not the norm in the area we could afford to live in California.

When it was time for Mikey to show his picture after several kids had got up and said Daddy works and Mommy stays home, I heard Mikey say the same thing. I told myself that this is what I want the norm to be for him and his two siblings.

I want them to come home from school and find fresh baked cookies on the kitchen counter right next to a nice cold glass of milk for a snack followed by: Mommy helping them with their homework before Daddy gets home to play with them in the afternoon. I want to be able to have dinner together every night and for Daddy to have monthly dates with his only daughter and all boys night out with his boys. You may think I am dreaming this stuff up but in Round Rock Texas, we do have Daddy and Daughter dates and the whole city participates. You see, this is the norm here and I love it! There is no where else I would rather be. I love Texas!