Michelle

I'm Sal's wife & Matteo & Sal’s Momma. I don't care how you parent your children. I love my family, Nail Polish, Lush & Coffee. Florida girl, Jersey living.

[miabella987]

I don’t sleep anymore, so I guess I’m back.

[miabella987]

I hate buying gifts for people.

Unless they are children. I like buying toys.

[knowanoah]

Stop telling yourself that the grass is greener on the other side, because it’s not. It is greener where you water it. So take control of your life and start watering your own pastures and grow your own greener grasses.

[miabella987]

It finally feels like fall and I’m so excited.

I’m going to attempt to get my fall and Halloween bins from the Attic tomorrow. Our attic is a massive set of stairs up from Salvatore’s room. Then I still have to carry them down from the second floor. Basically our house has 4 floors. Bins need to go from attic to main floor and empty the bins then to the finished basement until I’m ready to pack them up again. It’s just so much work.

We have such a busy week ahead of us. I haven’t even recovered from this sickness nor Matteo or from last week yet I have so much to do/ prepare and clean. This cold has went from person to person in my house for over 2 weeks now and I’m ready for it to leave.

Thank god I have bi weekly cleaning help because I don’t know what I’d do honestly. I would give up any extras to keep my cleaning lady, I might even starve. If my husband was home more or had time to help and it wasn’t literally just me 12 hours a day doing all the child care and I have super needy kids ..meal planning for 3 separate meals each meal, food shopping with a baby who refuses to cart sit, cooking, laundry, House management like dog poop clean up and water deliveries and pest control appointments and shopping and daily cleaning and picking up it wouldn’t be a big deal but by the time I get everything picked up to dust or mop or whatever well let’s be honest there just not anytime after I get all that done. Like I’ve realized I’m only one person and I can only do so much. I literally never have time for myself already. Having a cleaning lady come every other week and scrub my bathrooms (I have 3!) and change 4 beds sheets and vacuum and mop 3 floors of massive house is seriously such a help. Anyway, there’s a lot that needs to be done this week.

I also need to pump more because I haven’t been so successful. And we have a wedding in a couple days. I finally found a sitter who is experienced with food allergies and is epi pen trained and I cannot be more thankful. My husband and I went on our first date a few weeks ago to dinner and to see Trevor Noah and seriously I wish I would have found someone a long time ago because it’s been years since we’ve been out alone. I’m actually kinda excited to go to this wedding, usually social events make me super anxious but I’m excited for adult time.

We have company coming mid week, then more company flying in this weekend. My husband has a work trip coming up quickly. Then Salvatore’s birthday. Back to school night is this week, plus soccer practice and a game.

It’s just been nonstop with salvatore in school and fall soccer. He’s loving both and it’s so nice to see him so happy. He thanks me everyday for taking him to school. I hope it lasts because he can’t just quit 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

I’m trying my hardest to stay ontop of life/everything but I won’t even front, most days I’m struggling. Hoping we get into a routine quickly though because I’m so tired and I feel like the days are even shorter now with salvatore in school all day.

I’m just rambling on at this point. I need to be sleeping.

[miabella987]

I seriously hate this sprecta pump. My old pump from when Sal was a baby was working fine and I thought why not try the newest thing out. Well as my meldea died and I hardly pump because I never leave Matteo for long. We have 2 events this month and it literally took me a month of pumping ounces at a time to have a bottle for our sitter to give him.

Sucks so bad as I donated all my milk from before I cut his allergens from my diet. Not that he could have it because he can’t but still.

I just don’t understand why I don’t respond to this pump like at all. I don’t want to buy another because I hardly use it and they are so expensive.

[miabella987]

I have such a bad attitude today. I hate everything.

Why am I so annoyed?!

[psxsx]

[stability]

[feministism]

[miabella987]

You know your PMSing when the sound of the rain and cars driving on the wet road outside is pissing you off.

[miabella987]

I’ve been to target every single day for the last week trying to score one of these. This made my week, now my target card can recover because of course I ended up with shit each day.

[miabella987]

Is this not the classiest picture? Real lyfe yo

[miabella987]

[miabella987]

This year has been nothing but one big struggle and it just keeps getting worse.

[miabella987]

It makes no sense, traveling to Germany bags are under weight and ready.

Traveling to Florida both bags are too heavy and I’m pulling shit out and switching between bags.

Stressing myself the fuck out.

What more could we be taking with us this time

FUCK

I’m at the fuck it point. Fuck it I’ll buy it when we get there if it doesn’t fit.

[miabella987]

Ok so I feel like I finally a week and half after being back home from Germany have gotten back to normal life. I’m mostly caught up on my housework (thanks to my cleaning lady disappearing) and were all back on regular time here and back to our usual activities and routines. Finally unpacked everyone and washed everything and got most everything put away. Just in time to start doing it all again for Florida.

We think our basement flooded a few days after we left from a bad storm, so it’s been a total nightmare to clean up. We think we lost power and the pump didn’t turn on right away. We’re also locked out of our garage because we didn’t realize it wasn’t the same key as our house. Go figure.

It’s been interesting week. I’m so happy that baseball was canceled today because of rain storms. I don’t know if I’m happier to not have to go or for some of the pollen that has been killing me to be washed away.

I’m taking Sal out with me this afternoon for Sal and Mom shopping time. I have no gift for my MiL or SIL and still no idea what to get them. I also desperately need clothes because I’ve lost 40 or so lbs and nothing fits and I’m not wearing jeans in Florida summer heat. Wish me luck. Sal hates shopping but he’s been doing a lot of talking about “before Matteo it was you me and dad” he’s so jealous and I wish I could make it go away.

I’m so tired

[neopets-slut]

Why lush is so expensive

Please remember that Lush is a fair trade company. This means that all they pay ALL of their workers a livable amount, and don’t take advantage of workers and harvesters in third world countries like many brands do. They test none of their products on animals as well.

Please keep these things in mind! Just know there is a reason that they cannot sell their bath bombs for 99 cents each. Doing so would mean that hard workers are being under paid.

[whatsanapocalae]

other reasons it’s expensive: 

constant checks on their resources - They will drop any company that they are partnered with if they learn that they are gathering ingredients in an inhumane way, harming the environment, or puts their people at risk

charity work - if you’ve ever heard of Charity Pot, it’s called such because 100% of the cost (not proceeds) go to charity. It’s not what’s left over after they’ve paid the workers or bought the ingredients, it’s every single cent. 

kitchens instead of factories - They dont have a big warehouse of stock. They don’t have processing plants. What they have are buildings with industrial kitchen equipment, where all products are made by hand. 

fighting animal testing - a lot of companies say that they dont do animal testing, but they don’t do anything to prevent animal testing and may use ingredients sourced from animal testing. Lush leads protests, creates bills, and spreads information, as well as only work with those who don’t use animal testing, in order to fight the system

helping their sources- If they find out that something is wrong with one of their companies, they’ll do what they can to fix it. That means, if something is broken, they will fix it, even though it’s just someone that they’re partnered with. 

delicate products - everything they sell has an expiration date, because it’s all made out of fresh ingredients and they use as little preservatives and unnatural things as they can. That and bathbombs break, all the time. They can’t sell it if it has any damage larger than a dime.

[vampire-crimson]

this is… actually really nice information to know? im too broke to be able to afford their products, so the only access to any info about them i have is either word of mouth or if i were to actually look up information about them. 

i always assumed it was some status symbol thing like apple but im always happy to learn that things arent like that!