Well I got this new netbook and I blogged saying “Oh, I’ll update more because I got this netbook” and what do I do? Clearly, not blog more!!

Well I hope everyone in the US had a great Thanksgiving yesterday! I know I was jealous wanting some turkey, stuffing and all the fixins.. I know we had our Canadian thanksgiving in October but. . . I think we should have thanksgiving every month, or some sort of Holiday just to have the food :) I’m kidding, but wouldn’t that be something? I’m sure that the obesity rate would really sky rocket. Which brings me to my next topic: Weight. I’ve lost a lot of weight in the last 2 weeks. No complaints here! I am just getting tired of people saying I’m not fat, and “Oh you just had your 4th baby” YEAH ALMOST 6 MONTHS AGO! I just want to lose it, and then some.. I want to be happy with myself.

Thankfully I bought the family a Wii for Christmas which I’ll be getting Wii fit for and “the biggest loser” and I’m going to work out and try to lose weight from home… I’ll never find time to go to a gym so this will HAVE to work. The past 2 weeks I’ve lost weight from stress and that isn’t exactly healthy so lets hope the Wii will help me out until the weather gets nicer again so I can go for walks and jogs.

Ava has another eye appointment on Wednesday at 1130am.. I’m looking forward to taking her and seeing what they say. Shes been doing amazing with her patch and glasses. I doubt much has changed in the way of strength for her weak eye but I’m sure in time we’ll be able to see it.

Other than that not much has been going on. I’ve been doing stuff around the house trying to keep busy.. the kids sure help with that! I need to go out in the next few weeks to finish up my Christmas shopping… I also need to get to a dentist soon although its my biggest fear that they are going to yank my tooth I think it needs to be looked at. Too bad theres no NJ Cosmetic dentist near me. Instead I’ll go to the one where my husband goes, and see what they can do. Its a tooth.. I’ve been through labor 4 times and endured a lot in my life you’d think having a tooth pulled wouldn’t be my biggest fear now would you?? Sillyness.

Well, I hope everyone is doing good. Once I get the kids tucked into bed tonight I’m going to get some more stuff done online, if my headache goes away.. I just need to find everyones URL’s again…..

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I used to watch the Dr. Phil family back 6 years ago after I had just had Jordan and it first started. I was 18 years-old and I was totally disgusted with how Alexandra’s parents were treating her. Obviously, teen pregnancy is an issue and not something parents accept very easily but I always thought her parents were really hard on her and could have helped make the situation a little easier for her.

Now 6 years later I watch the show and I can’t even believe what I see. Alexandra is now 21 years-old and has two children. She was married but is in the process of getting a divorce, and she is now living with a new man. Her mother has been raising her oldest for 6 years now, and had her youngest child for the past few months also. She is being accused of being on drugs and a very unfit mother.

From what I’ve seen on the show, and that is all I have to go on is that she is a very troubled young girl who has her priorities way out of whack. Never in my life could I imagine choosing to live with a boyfriend, over having custody of my children. Theres a lot more to the story that we are able to see on the Dr. Phil show I’m sure, but from what I’ve been seeing I’m very disturbed and my heart aches for her children.

The Dr. Phil family is on every Monday, and todays episode brought tears to my eyes. Someone e-mailed Dr.Phil accusing her live-in boyfriend of being abusive towards her young daughter (18 months old) and according to the young child’s Grandma, and Alexandra’s mother Erin - who did provide photos to Dr. Phil - the young girl has bruises and bumps very visible on her body, and throat. The e-mail from this friend described some pretty horrific things that I couldn’t imagine ANY child having to deal with.

Of course, there sat Alexandra on the stage rolling her eyes, talking back to Dr. Phil… She claims she wants help yet it doesn’t appear she is doing anything to rectify the situation. Her situation is this; her children are about to be taken away, and all she can focus on is her relationship with her mother - and her upbringing as a child. Well, as far as I’m concerned, and this is just my own opinion but it looks to me like Alexandra is just too concerned with being angry at her mother rather than being concerned for the health, well-being and care of her children. It just breaks my heart.

Sure, she can be upset and hell, hate her parents for the past that is all fine and good, but at the end of the day it isn’t about HER… Once you have children life isn’t just about YOU anymore its about your children and then you. Of course I believe happy mom, makes happy children but if mom isn’t even there, or mom is angry and upset all the time what good is that to the children?

I feel so very strongly and passionate about children, and their well-being and health. They are so innocent and so dependant on their parents its a real shame she has grown up to be this way. Of course she has issues with her family, who doesn’t? But I don’t think that gives her an excuse to behave as she does ON STAGE at the Dr.Phil show and on tapes. I don’t think it gives her the right to just shrug off her children because she doesn’t want to deal with her mother who is from my personal point of view trying to protect and give these children a good chance at life…. I think shes a very selfish little girl who is deeply troubled. I really hope she gets the help she needs, and I really hope that one day her and her mother can figure out what it is that went wrong with them and get some closure. At least before its too late.

I lost my mother when I was 16 years-old and when I look at how these two act it deeply disturbs me. I couldn’t imagine any of it. I live for my children, and I know when my mom was alive she’d do anything for hers.

If you’ve been watching, or caught an episode or two let me know what you think. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and views… these are just mine. I’m interested to see how others view what is going on also….

Saturday morning I went out and bought a new mini netbook!! Sorta a little Christmas gift to myself! I am a frequent twitterer because of my blackberry, but now I can blog whenever I want to from my bed, from the living room, from the kitchen… anywhere so I’ll be blogging a lot more. It wasn’t so easy to go to the basement anytime I wanted to blog… so now look for frequent blogs!

Now that I have this little piece of electronic heaven I need to do some online backup and get my wordpress up to date… I haven’t had time to do anything… Hopefully I can work on a new look sooner rather than later too!

Well finally the day came when Ava’s pediatric eye appointment came! I took her first thing in the morning this past Wednesday we were there from 9a until 12p… It was a long appointment but very informative and very much needed. It turns out Ava did need glasses, and to be patched. She needs to wear a patch on her good eye all day everyday, while the other eye left unpatched to try and regain some strength in it as its got minimul vision and she can hardly see out of it. It is severely turned and because they don’t think the patch and glasses will completely fix it, it looks like she might need to have surgery. We got her glasses Wednesday night. We looked everywhere for frames to fit her I ended up leaving Peter at the mall with the 3 other kids while Ava and I got a cab and headed downtown to a little shop that had her size in frames and we got them. They are little pink Disney Princess frames and are so cute.

We got those then headed back to the mall to find everyone and we had dinner, dropped the perscription off for her lenses and got them back in an hour. She wouldn’t wear them for the first day but the 2nd day I went out and got her a strap for her and shes been wearing them since… Only taking them off a few times during the day instead of every 3 minutes like she was so that is progress… and as she gets used to them I’m sure she’ll leave them on… She looks so cute with them, I’ll have to post a photo. Right now theres one on my Flickr. So check that out if you are a contact of mine!

Now I’m going to search around for some car accessories. I don’t have a vehicle but I’m finding shopping online for Christmas and other is a lot easier for me considering my husbands work schedule and the kids… so lets hope I can find some stuff.

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So I’m fairly new with buying things online.. I’d say the last few months of my pregnancy with Jayden I really started buying things online. I’d use eBay, Amazon and other sites I’d find around the net…. Never had an issue. Of course, as luck would have it I had an issue.

I was looking online for the new BSB cd “This is Us” (make fun if you will, I love them still!)

I found a listing that looked great! The person had 99.8% good feedback.. I read through the feedback which I do before I purchase anything on eBay and it seemed like it would be okay to go ahead and purchse this cd which would end up costing $20.27 and was being shipped from Ontario - where I live - so it shouldn’t take too long to reach me. I purchased the CD on October 9th and waited. On October 13th I recieved an e-mail saying my item had been shipped to me that day. So I wait….. October 30th comes and I am still waiting… So I contact the seller and I hear nothing back. Finally, on November 3rd I get an e-mailing that read:

I regret to inform you that there has been a problem with your order and that you must make a decision before any further progress is made. The item, BACKSTREET BOYS**THIS IS US**CD, we had in our inventory for your order was damaged in shipping from the manufacturer. We have been actively trying to acquire a replacement from the manufacturer but have not received it at this time. We expect our replacement shipment to arrive within the next 2 to 10 business days.

You have two options at this point. We can give you a full refund for your order (and leave positive feedback for your prompt payment), or you can choose to wait a little while longer, and hopefully the replacement will be in shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

While reading that I noticed it said The item, we had in our inventory for your order was damaged in shipping from the manufacturer.

Which was weird since on October 13th I received an e-mail saying it had been shipped out to ME.

So I e-mailed the man back saying I’d like a refund… and again I waited. Didn’t hear anything back so I opened a paypal dispute through eBay and Paypal. Of course, this got his attention and he emailed me back saying:

It appears you have opened a dispute with paypal.

Ok, very good. Yes, I did. So I e-mail him back saying yes as my attempts to contact him weren’t successful I wanted my money back. After e-mailing him and telling him that, and saying I’d end the dispute and let him settle it with me and him not returning my emails I upgraded the dispute to a claim. I sent paypal all my e-mails with this guy, and everything I’d done in a months time to get my item or my money back…. Within 5 hours I had my money refunded to me by paypal and all is well, I won the dispute/claim.

Like I knew I would. How hard is it to give someone back their money? Did he think I was just gonna let him keep my $20.27 and be done with it? Apparently so since it took him weeks to get back to me and after telling me my item was shipped then saying it was damaged from manufactur. UGH. But at the end of it all I have my $20.27 back in my paypal and I was able to buy some cute things online for the kids stockings with it and the rest of my money in paypal! :)

Well other than that which I’ve been wanting to blog about for a couple days now I need to get my butt in gear and get some things done around the house. Yesterday I had a migraine from HELL and didn’t get much done. Not a lot needs to be done around the house but when the kids nap I’d like to get whatever needs to be done, done and get things ready for dinner.. Looking for some LCD tvs? I know I sure could use a new one, for every room in my house! :) Oh well, Christmas is coming soon I need to get my butt in gear and get out shopping for that too!!!! So much to do, so little time!

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Halloween was great! The kids had a blast. We went out at 5:30pm and I had Jayden dressed up as the bumblebee but he was in the back of the double stoller bundled up and I had the rain/wind cover over the stroller so no one could really see him… Ava lasted an hour going to doors saying “Trick or Treat” then she wanted in the front of the double stoller… Kyla last 1hr and 30mins at which time it was 7pm so Peter took the 2 girls and Jayden home to get ready for bed while I took Jordan around for another 30-40 minutes or so… They got a TON of candy which is hiding in Mom and Dads room because I try to limit the amount of sweets they get… but it was a really great successful night!

Sunday we went to go get our H1N1 shots. Where we were in line had a sign saying “From this spot in line, Your wait time is 3 hours” OYYYY! But within 20 minutes of us standing there security came and grabbed us and took us right to the front and we got our shots! We had to wait 15 minutes after our shots so they could watch for a reaction and after that we were home.. there, shots, and home all in 1hr and 20mins! Not bad at all… My arm hurt so bad for the last few days though, its finally ok now thankfully… Jayden couldn’t get the shot because he will only be turning 5 months on the 6th of this month so next month if its still a huge issue and if my city is still a major “Hot Spot” for it I’ll be getting him the shot also. I did a TON of research on it, and finally made my decision to go ahead with the shot, no comments about that please. I did what is right for my family, and their well being. I have a baby under 6 mos in my house so its a lot different than a lot of people. If Jayden were to contract H1N1 who knows what would happen to him and I’m NOT willing to risk that. Jordan going to school and bringing everything home is a HUGE risk while having Jayden so the 3 older kids got the shot - and Jordan is staying home until Monday with us to at least let the shot get in his system. My hubby went and picked up this weeks homework for him this morning so he will be a busy boy.

Other than that nothing new is going on. I’m trying to get a lot of things done around the house and just enjoying my kids and having fun…. Soon will be time to decorate for Christmas (dont worry I’ll wait until Dec 1st ;) and the kids and I always have a blast doing that!!! Hope everyone had a good and safe Halloween… I’ll try to go around to read some blogs and comment tonight or tomorrow… When the kids are sleeping! :) I’d love to look into orlando vacations, I wish I lived closer I think that would be such an amazing thing to do with my kids… for now I’ll research and maybe plan something for the future… when the kids are a bit older perhaps… Have a great Wednesday everyone!