Giving advice on lifestyle, product reviews, and dealing with teenagers
ABOUT | Crafty Momm thoughts
Hi I am here to talk a little bit about who I am, I am CraftyMomm. I run a channel on YouTube. I have been asked by several of my followers and friends about my unique personal insights into different things such as parenting and the facts of life. I thought it would be easier to post responses here so everyone can see them and so that it may help more people. So, I recently have been without work so with a lot of time on my hands I decided to really give it a go and see if I can make this a success. I really wish I had more time to be with my family and I think that this may be the way I can do it.
With that being said I am a 40-year-old mom, I have two wonderful children. A boy and a girl whom I would do anything for. Both of my children are coming up on teenage years. One is 16 and the other is 13, this gives me interesting insight into parenting because believe me I have had discussions with my children I never thought I would ever have in a million years! For example: Explaining to my daughter why it is not ok to pick her brothers nose when he was sleeping!! (Now she was around 3 at this time but still wasn’t a conversation I thought I would ever have to have.) And of course, it hasn’t gotten easier as they have grown.
I have been married to a wonderful man for 16 years. He has been my rock, my best friend when I felt everyone else had forsaken me. We have had an amazing marriage and of course 16 years in this day and age is saying something. We are each other’s yin and yang we just sort of work. I tell him it’s because he likes the strange and unusual. He just laughs and says its because opposites attract, and that could be true, He hardly worries about anything, he is laid back and I am just the opposite I worry about almost everything. So, we balance out I worry enough to get him motivated and he is relaxed enough to keep me anchored.
I graduated with an associate’s degree in applied science in Medical assisting. I was fortunate to have been able to be a stay at home mom for the first 6 years of my son’s life and the first 4 of my daughters. I went to college in the evening after my husband got home from work at 6, I would go to school at 7 pm attend till 10, stay up doing homework until 2 am and then got up with the kids at 7 am and I am proud to say that I graduated with High honors, It was not easy by no means but I felt that was the best time to do it because my kids were young enough to not notice as much that mom was gone. I continued my education by starting a bachelor’s degree in psychology I have 2 years under my belt and a few years ago when the economy tanked my husband lost his job so I went to work.
I have worked several jobs since I graduated, I was a telemarketer (I have the utmost respect for people who can do that job it was not my cup of tea) I have been a home health aide which I have done for 2 years, and I was employed with a company that I have been working for almost eight years. I was an assistant for a day program for special needs adults. It was a very fulfilling job I feel like I make difference every time I go to work.
So that is a little about me I hope that you will follow me on my blogging journey I have a feeling it is going to be a wild ride!!!