Struggling Parents

Sitting up, Oh yeah !!!

2012-05-18T12:57:00.004-07:00

Oh yeah !!! He's a big boy
Sitting up in his bed...my Grandson Ryan...

My other blog; ♥♥♥♥♥1. Across this bridge2. Struggling parents3. When life become a book4. Read Between the Lines5. The Sleeping Turtle Art Gallery6. Layout Marketing7. Internet Lifestyle8. Marketing Myself

Photos of my handsome Grandson

2012-05-16T09:59:00.007-07:00

My Handsome grandson Ryan just started sitting up a couple days ago...

Handsome Ryan sleeping, its what he does best...lol

My Grandson Ryan

2012-05-15T11:25:00.001-07:00

My Grandson Ryan

Babies, They Just keep on coming

2012-05-02T14:36:00.003-07:00

More Adorable pictures;Sonagram picturesGuess which one of my daughters has a bun in the oven, lol;

Yup !!! its Michelle !!!

My grandson

2012-04-20T08:45:00.001-07:00

Pictures of my grandson Ryan, 4 months old

Gramma again !!!

2012-03-31T08:55:00.004-07:00

My youngest daughter Michelle is pregnant
she is almost 5 mos, due in August
that would make me have 3 grandsons, I have 3 daughters,
now 3 grandsons

My Grandson, 3 mos old

2012-03-30T11:29:00.021-07:00

My 2nd grandson Ryan, my daughters Alex's son...sweet!!!

Me and My Grandson Ryan, 3mos old

My daughter Alex and Her Son Ryan, 3 mos old

My Second Grandson

2012-02-28T07:23:00.005-08:00

Ryan, my second grandson

Sweet Ryan

I'll soon be a Grandma again

2011-06-25T17:16:00.000-07:00

Alexandra, my second youngest daughter is pregnate, she is 14 wks 5 days 6/16, but is is now 15 wks today. I asked her to take another pic, but she hasn't gotten back to me. Her tummy is 35"...

CLICK ON PHOTOS TO MAKE LARGER;

15 wks baby is probably alittle over 4 inches long...;)

Amazing Tree Houses

2010-09-23T07:49:00.000-07:00

Part of this post is a repost, from a couple years ago.

This GINORMOUS 12-level treehouse near Marshalltown, Iowa, has over 5,000 square feet of floor space, plus a telephone, a microwave, a fridge, running water, 13 porch swings, a spiral stairway and a grill.

Read more: http://www.momlogic.com/2010/08/the_mother_of_all_treehouses.php#ixzz10MgKgCkk
Tree houses are getting more popular these down, a great living environment but probably not for raising children...I posted a few pictures of some neat, cool, awesome tree houses.

Cool...this one awesome ..spherical!!!

Spacey ...lol

Nice, now all I need is a pink Harley..lol

This tree house is in a different area, looks like Africa ...

Beautiful view all the way around, I like this one the best !!!

Ball Tree House...lol

A-Frame..love the view.

This tree house even has shingles.

Unique tree house.

Tree houses capture the imagination of the child in all of us, and they have never been more popular than they are today.

GOOD NEWS

2010-09-20T21:16:00.000-07:00

The link below is what was happening with Tweety, the family bird, WELL...GOOD NEWS...she is a alive and as mean as ever...

What had happen is that the cat knocked the cage and scared her, but she is flying, nipping, and eating again...she looks great...and that made my evening...now I want to get rid of my daughters cat..lol

I've been playing farmville on facebook, so that is why I haven't been around...another addicting game, geeeze...

Have a great evening !!!
Birds sick link (this link will open another page.)

Doesn't look good for the "Family Bird"

2010-09-19T19:59:00.000-07:00

The Family bird has been with us for quite awhile. My daughter Michelle called me and said Tweety is dying. This post below is a repost from about 3 years ago...:(
My daughter is now 28 and she was 15 when I got her Tweety. I actually picked the egg out and watched her hatch...she's lived a long and happy life...

RE-POST;

I posted some picture of our family bird "Tweety" or sometimes we call her "Bird". This is actually my oldest daughters bird she has had it since she was 15 teen and now she is 25. My oldest daughter is ten states away and she didn't think that the bird would handle the move, so we have kept her with us, taking care of it for her. She has quite the personality.

Got any money in your purse...?

Not to much water in this glass...hum

Thristy...

Hide and seek

Making up my mind

I think squirt taste better

Can I have a bite?

Warmth and safe

Bath time

Pretty bird

Tiny Babies

2010-09-17T18:50:00.000-07:00

Baby in a swing

Baby and teddy bear

Baby Tiger and Monkey

Baby Hedgehog

Newborn Pug

Newborn Panda bear

Baby Aardvark

Newborn monkey

Baby elephant

Baby Fox

Newborn bunny

My Dad's Birthday

2010-09-14T10:04:00.000-07:00

Today is my Dads birthday, he's 84 today, I am posting my pictures of him for his birthday...
I'm sure he's going to appreciate it...lol

My Dad's Fathers car, 1904 St Louis, it is now in the St. Louis Missouri Museum.

Pictures to share

2010-09-13T10:09:00.000-07:00

More goofy pictures to share;
the first two are of my mom and dad a few years ago, and the others are of my girls and grandson...

Isn't she Silly ?

2010-09-06T10:52:00.001-07:00

This is one of my 3 daughters, Alex, isn't she silly?

Cute, funny and entertaining clips

2010-09-05T16:53:00.000-07:00

Just some cute, funny and entertaining photo clips of my 2 youngest daughters...
(message to Jilly, my oldest daughter, send me some clips of you...;)

Depression hurts, BUT

2010-09-04T16:46:00.000-07:00

I had a diffiucult time loading these pictures through Google, I'm now frustrated. I had a bad day today, my boyfriend and I basically broke up and I'm sad, I don't want to be away from him, but he has always said family comes first.

My mom had surgery about 2 weeks ago, and my dad has had some issues with low blood, anemia. And my boyfriends kids dislike me, for what reason, I would only imagine that I'm in their way of them getting their way...

So I decided to post some happy pictures of what is positive in my life, and what I am proud of...my daughters ...I love you girls...

Their salary is not enough?

2010-08-31T07:10:00.000-07:00

What The Rents Say
According to a Real Deal article from November 11, 2009, rents are down around 9% since October 2009, but rents are still not "cheap." While no fee apartments are becoming more common, they are not a steady norm. Coming up with an extra month's rent, or even a half month on top of the usually required first month and security deposit is a financial burden few young renters can afford. Often times, even if the owner pays the broker's fee, they require last month's rent, leaving the lessee with three months worth of rent to hand over at the lease signing.

Studio and one bedroom prices in New York City, although lower along with their neighboring two and three bedrooms, are still for the most part out of the price range of the twenty-somethings. Finding an apartment for under $1200 a month, that is not a rundown "hole in the wall" apartment below 95th street is nearly impossible

Many out-of-school and struggling young people lack the credentials, skills, and training required to succeed in today’s competitive economy. New, powerful pathways are needed to improve their outcomes and to fuel major growth industries. It is imperative in the emerging American economy that there is a predictable and steady supply of workers with the skills needed to perform well in entry-level technical and professional jobs. A strong, effective pipeline is essential to maintaining economic growth across the country and to sustaining this nation’s competitiveness in a world market

A main cause of America’s failure to keep pace with the rest of the world in this arena is a persistent and growing achievement gap between low-income students and their more economically advantaged peers. Only 15 percent of low-income students who begin high school are likely to earn a college degree, compared with 50 percent of non-poor students. Lower high school graduation and postsecondary enrollment rates explain part of the disparity, while huge differences in the success rates of students who make it to college explain the rest. College students from families in the bottom 40 percent of the income spectrum are only half as likely to complete a two-year or four-year degree as non-poor students (30 percent completion rate compared with 60 percent).

Meanwhile, our existing postsecondary pathways and delivery systems, particularly for struggling students or low-income youth, remain marginal, under-funded, or ill designed to substantially increase the numbers of young people gaining postsecondary credentials. Too many youth find that traditional paths through remedial education to a first postsecondary degree take many years to complete. On the other hand, short-term training opportunities may be disconnected from employer needs or not intensive enough to ensure rapid connection to and success in the labor market. An effective response to these issues requires that a host of leaders and stakeholders across the country work in tandem to invest in, develop, and scale up new pathways and program designs that significantly reduce our country’s growing postsecondary achievement gap.

The worst fear is that presidents and boards of trustees will tend to cut at the bottom -- first, custodial staff, then clerical staff, then allegedly marginal academic departments -- and, last, of course, the central administration which tends at large universities to have highly paid Chiefs of Staff, numerous Vice Presidents, Associate titles, and so on. In fact, often the misguided response to problems has been to create yet more administrative offices at a high level -- not a wise or effective move. I think what presidents and university leaders need to keep in mind and heed is the wonderful insight Arthur Levine provided about a decade ago when he cautioned that higher education now is a mature industry -- it is less and less plausible for college and university reps to depict themselves to foundations, donors, and state legislatures as struggling new enterprises.

College professionals earn extremely too much taking from Where?

Data collected from this year’s national survey of faculty compensation indicates that the overall average salary for a full time faculty member went up by only 1.2 percent over last year—the lowest year-to-year change recorded in the fifty-year history of the AAUP survey. And about one-third of the 1200 responding institutions reported that overall average salary levels actually decreased.

But beneath the headlines lie some interesting facts. Not only do some professors receive pretty good salaries, but these salaries vary wildly from institution to institution. And the link between salaries and tuition isn’t as simple as it may seem.

The average pay for a full time professor in 2009-10 was $109,843, for the academic year. The five highest paying institutions were:

• Harvard: $191,500
• Columbia University: $188,600
• University of Chicago: $184,100
• Stanford: $181,400
• Princeton: $181,000

Can you imagine making that much? My highest earnings in my 25 years of nursing was only under 25,000.00
rasing 3 daughters (which by the way, girls are more expensive than boys to raise) on an income less than 25,000.00.

College Professor Job Description:
First of all, you're teaching, each semester (most colleges and universities have two semesters, roughly from September to the end of December, and then mid-Janauary to April or May), two to four classes of students in your subject. Your class sizes may be tiny seminars (8 - 10 people); they may be vast lectures (over 100 students). It depends on whether you're at a small college or at a large university, how popular your subject is, etc.

A general rule of thumb for salary ranges for various levels of professors are $45,000.00 to $65,000.00 for assistant professors, $60,000.00 to $80,000.00 for associate professors, and $70,000 to $85.000.00 for full professors. However, it can be more or less depending on the factors mentioned. Professors often complain they have a hard time making ends meet at these salary levels. As a result, they are forced to obtain additional sources of income such as consulting, research, or additional teaching (well,I worked for 3 companies to make ends meet). Also, the spouses of the majority of professors are forced to work to make up the difference (I was divorced, single parent, still with a salary of less than 25,000.00). I think people have to high of living expensives, and have a tendiency to over spend. We should learn to be thankful for what we have, and quit buying things we don't neccasary need.

I can’t understand why anyone would complain of in income of 85,000. Or even 45,000. Most people, including myself have never had a salary of over 30,000. Try raising 3 daughters as a single parent on that income. And they say it isn’t enough? I worked extremely hard as a Nurse 24-7 for many years and missed out on the growth of my children with an income less than 25,000. Why not just be thankful for what your getting…Maybe they should lower their standards of living and their cost of living to meet their income like the rest of us, and quit complaining…Quit spending...

The big question is
Where do you think their income comes from?

Banner Exchange once again

2010-08-29T06:36:00.000-07:00

I Have openings for banner exchange, the banners that were on my website were not leaving my banner on their website. I haven't been online for over 7 mos until just last week, and its a real bummer that they took my banner off without letting me know so I could remove theirs. (thats kind of chicken shit, if you ask me) So I am starting over. Those who would like theirs placed onto my page, please let me know if you remove it...I also have ads spots available through project wonderful. You can get to the link by clicking onto the ad spot, "Advertise Here", OR "Place your Ad here".I'm still checking out to see if the other links still work. For some reason or another, the links remained but the banner picture dissappeared. I'm going to contact the people that belong to those links and see if maybe their picture, some where dissappeared, because they might of changed it and the picture left the link.

My Saved Banner exchanges;

Jiggety Jigg
Smelly Dad
Obessed Cyclist
Just For Me and You
Mommys Little corner

This is my blog
Liar reviews
Mom reviews
Two of a kind working on a full house
My moms view
Kindred spirit reviews
Central Perk NY
Because I could never keep up with a diary
On The Bricks

Pictures taken from my laptop cam

2010-08-28T15:31:00.001-07:00

Nothing but goofying off, experiencing with taking pictures with my cam off my laptop.

Thursday Photos

2010-08-26T17:48:00.000-07:00

Just some random photos I was going through, missing the kids as they are busy in their own lives.
These pictures were taken throughout last year and some earlier this year.

I just wanted to say that I miss all of you and
I'll be online for just a short while,
maybe a month or less.

Learning from every experience

2010-08-25T07:00:00.000-07:00

Learning from everything

You can learn from everything. Take full advantage of that
great opportunity.

From joy, you can learn. From adversity, you can learn.

From friends, from travel, challenge, disappointment,
pleasure, achievement, anger, frustration and beauty, you
can learn. From the biggest ideas and the smallest details
you can learn.

You can even learn just by thinking in a new way about what
you've already learned. Whatever it is you wish to learn,
you can learn.

Your knowledge and wisdom add great value and effectiveness
to whatever you do. Every day there are countless
opportunities to increase that knowledge and that wisdom.

Learning is the ability from which all other abilities arise
and improve. Keep on learning all that you can learn.

Links for 2010-06-12 [Digg]

2010-06-13T00:00:00-07:00

Above the Clouds
Dave's Travel Blog

My Three Lovely Daughters

2010-03-06T09:35:00.000-08:00

My oldest daughter was here in Calif. from Missouri. She is visiting us and has been here since last Friday, she is leaving today to return back to Missouri. This is a picture I took yesterday called another couch picture...I haven't been online much due to a surgery on my neck, I will try to post more often, hope all is well with all of my wondeful blogger friends...

My other blog;
♥♥♥♥♥
1. Across this bridge
2. Struggling parents
3. When life become a book
4. Read Between the Lines
5. The Sleeping Turtle Art Gallery
6. Layout Marketing
7. Internet Lifestyle
8. Marketing Myself

Some Afghans I've made

2010-01-20T17:31:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone, I really miss being online, Check out my pictures of some of the afghans I've crocheted.

Well I've been crocheting so many afghans, I've completed 6. Two Airy style afhans, one white for my daughter Alex, and one rose colored for my daughter Michelle. Two flowered granny square afghans for both Alex and Michelle and a Airy Diamond, browns color afghan for my oldest daughter Jill. And the last one, the last afghan completed is an American Flag afghan for my grandson Mikey. I am going to ship the flag afghan as soon as I get some money.

My income is $50 a month right now, I will be getting $250 starting in March for child support.

Airy Diamond Afghan, I made three and started another one.

Flag afghan, I am making another one to sell on eBay;
my user name on eBay is teri432004...look me up, I will be selling many things like the roses of afghans I have made but the roses are red. Also Pop Corn Flowers I crocheted.

I made two of these;

My other blog;
♥♥♥♥♥
1. Across this bridge
2. Struggling parents
3. When life become a book
4. Read Between the Lines
5. The Sleeping Turtle Art Gallery
6. Layout Marketing
7. Internet Lifestyle
8. Marketing Myself

Links for 2009-11-18 [Digg]

2009-11-19T00:00:00-08:00

The Amazing Bouncing Pebble Toad
Life The Amazing Bouncing Pebble Toad

Links for 2009-09-24 [Digg]

2009-09-25T00:00:00-07:00

art mirror
An amazing artist

Links for 2009-09-16 [Digg]

2009-09-17T00:00:00-07:00

Outlined in “Ocean”
If you ride the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) from Pleasanton, past Oakland, under the Bay and take the Embarcadero ...

Links for 2009-09-14 [Digg]

2009-09-15T00:00:00-07:00

news stories that make you wonder (part 1)
crazy news...
What Is Your Ideal Hotel Stay?
Great pictures, and post...
Google search gives helpful suggestions
LOL...sooo funny !!!

Links for 2009-09-10 [Digg]

2009-09-11T00:00:00-07:00

Happy Birthday Sandee!
a happy birthday
Harley ride home
This was taken just as we arrived home from our journey around Butte County, Northern California. The Harley behind us is my boyfriends son Steven & his wife T's brand new Harley "Screaming Eagle" custom styled. June 14th 2009.
This Is How Total Destruction On Earth Looks from Space
Back in June, astronauts onboard the International Space Station took a few spectacular photos of the Sarychev Peak volcano as it exploded in a 5-mile high plume of ash and gas. Here's the even more spectacular video.
I Met an Angel - Dovey's MySpace Blog |
Read I Met an Angel by Dovey on MySpace Blogs! New blogTopics added every minute. I met an Angel And she gave me a smileShe asked could we visitAnd...

Links for 2009-09-09 [Digg]

2009-09-10T00:00:00-07:00

5 Superpowers Everyone Has That Your Body Is Hiding From You
Those motivational speakers are right: You are capable of amazing things... sometimes.
When Life Becomes a Book
Cat watch