Fingernails, Iced Tea, and Brownies

Prenatal Vitamins from being pregnant recently has enabled me to have some super long fingernails...
I have always been able to grow them, but my nails seem stronger and healthier than ever before. Well... I recently decided that sense my nails are so healthy, strong, and lets face it, beautiful, that I would paint my nails. I mulled over the color for days and kept going back and forth between two colors, a blue, or a bright pink, and then I ultimately went with a mauve at last minute. The deciding factor was that the mauve was fast drying, and with 2 kids, thats my kind of nail polish! So I painted them, and they are looking pretty good, until all of a sudden... they start breaking. I dont understand it, I thought the polish would make them harder to break, but it had quite the opposite effect. So then I start thinking about it... and just about everytime I have painted my fingernails in my life, that is what has happened. I do believe that somehow the polish kills my nails and makes them weak. So... I do believe that I should leave what God gave me alone and not try to spice things up with a little polish. Oh and did I mention that the mauve fingernail polish was my Maws, who by the way, was talking about Iced Tea while I was painting my nails, and it made me start thinking about how I cant make tea. Its the weirdest thing... I thought for the longest time, it was the brand i was buying... but its not. I can buy the exact same brand that anyone else buys and their tea is good, and mine tastes like discustingness. I dont exactly know what I am doing wrong. I boil the water, put the tea bags in, add sugar and ice... and viola...NOT! I have added more sugar, not added enough, tried more tea bags, tried less, I DO NOT get it. Soooo I gave up... McDonalds makes some pretty good tea, so when i have a good craving for it, i just fork up the cash, its better than loosing my mind trying to figure this tea thing out. And speaking of not being able to make stuff.... I have never been able to make brownies. The instructions are clearly on the box... but for some reason... my brownies are always hard as a rock, except the one time when i cooked them for 3 hours and they would not get done, they was so runny! I have wasted a lot of my time attempting to make brownies. Its sad when your younger brother has to make brownies for you, but I dont mind.... he makes the best! OHHH which reminds me of the time I tried to make dirt, but that is a story that should be saved for a rainy day.

Roller Coaster

Ahh... The Roller Coaster of life.... Isn't it funny how sometimes we are at a point in our lives when everything is up and going great, then everything comes crashing down. This is what I would call the roller coaster effect. When we are brought into this world as a mere child, we depend solely on our parents, to feed us, protect us, love us, nurture us.... i could go on but you get the picture.... We haven't a worry in the world, basically because we don't even know what that is yet, but parents try so hard to shield children from the hardships of life. And I am thinking this is not the correct approach.... YES, children should not have to worry about anything, but maybe it would be okay to let kids know that things aren't always okay. Its okay to see a parent have a bad day. Its okay to see them cry. Children should know that life isn't easy and they need to know that being a kid should be enjoyed more because once they get in the real world, its not all fun and games. I hear kids all the time saying "I wish I was an adult" or "I cant wait to get my drivers license". I just want to shake them! Real life is hard....Being an adult doesn't mean that you don't have to obey your parents anymore, or that you can come and go as you please. Yes, that's usually what happens... BUT, Being an adult means you have to grow up, you have to start paying bills, keeping a job to pay those bills, and working so hard that fun time is gone! All your money is spent on bills, and even if you had the time to go out and do something fun... Guess What? Your rent is due. And driving... Its really not that fun. Once you have been driving for a while, you realize that its really not all its cracked up to be. Its a lot of responsibility. First, there is the insurance that you have to pay every month in order to drive... Second, there is the up keep of your vehicle... tires, spark plugs, oil changes, inspections, not to mention if anything ever goes wrong... And Then there is the car payment... unless you get a junker, which is back to my second point... which will probably inevitably lead to something going wrong.... SOOOO I could go on and on.... but basically its simple.... Life is a roller coaster and children need to slow down and enjoy their childhood with the knowledge that one day, childhood will be over and once it is, you cant go back.... So now i just need to figure out how to get my 5 year old to not want to grow up so quickly because if I hear him say "I cant wait till I'm old enough to drive" one more time I think I could pull out my hair.... I guess I'll just have to explain how the roller coaster works.