Whoa internets are you still here?  I figured due to my absence you would all have moved on to some other self centered person’s blog.  No?  Well whew… that’s a relief.

My affair with the vampires has ended.  It’s sad, but we parted well and I have a sense of peace that it’s over.  I will miss the Twilight series and the whole Cullen family and I will miss that sense of urgency that I must read every word as. soon. as. possible.

What I won’t miss?  Piles of laundry, dirty floors, dishwashers full of clean dishes and sinks full of dirty one’s.  I won’t miss Adam falling asleep on the couch because my nose is in a book and I won’t miss being away from all 3 of you who read my blog!

So yeah….I am back!  I think everyone should read these books and also see Twilight in movie form as well.  It’s a really good fantasy…SUCH a good fantasy!

I know it sounds like all I did was read for days and days and days.  But I do have some sense of responsibility.  We had to eat and wear clean clothes.  I actually managed to clean the bathroom and Addison’s pigsty of a room too.

Yeah and about her room.  Friday night I decided to help her clean her room and the bonus room because we were having a play date on Saturday.  With Christmas coming I wanted to gather some things to give to the goodwill because I know that Addison has an excess of toys and will be getting more as gifts.

She actually cried when I told her she needed to pick 5 my little pony’s and 3 horses to keep and the rest would go to a less fortunate child.  I explained to her that we are a very blessed family and there are others who don’t have as much.  She seemed resolved, but still tears ran down her cheeks.

Everything is so “special” to her.  I have tried to explain to her that if everything is “special” then nothing is truly special.  She ended up spending the night at my parent’s house because I could see that I was stressing her out by filling garbage bags with toys.

Being a parent forces me to think about my own attachment to “stuff”.  I like to think of myself as a non materialistic person.  The people in my life are of the utmost importance to me, so nothing else really matters. But, it’s a hard introspective thing to realize that I like stuff too.  I have my priorities straight, but I am also a realist.  I have to admit that I love Coach purses and home decor and shoes.  So how can I expect Addison to grasp something that I can’t even do myself?

I think that it’s ok to want stuff, but I would like to find a balance so that I can teach my children that when it comes to what is truly important, we have it all.  I am pretty confident that Addison will learn the right way to feel about material things because I intend to lead by example.  And if she doesn’t well, then I will just put everything we own in trash bags and start all over again.  It sounds like a pretty good idea to me, but since she cried big huge crocodile tears about a toy horse, it would probably not go over very well.

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