Hello mommies,

Welcome to my new and beautified blog! This is for you and me, when we’re beautiful, and when we just can’t seem to get ourselves out of bed:

This adorable wordart is available for FREE for your scrapbooks at Bethany’s Wordart site. It is just toooooooo “cute” (and I do mean relevant) lol

I was in a car accident tonight - no worries! We are all fine. but not my sexy mini-van. rotfl. The claims process, and appraisal and everything brought back memories of being an insurance adjuster. “A whaaa?”, you ask. Well, ya know the bad guys in Erin Brokovich? Yup. That was me before children (minus the cigar and bald head). When I was a newbie in the insurance claims office, my boss told me,

“The insurance policy is the most expensive paper/document most people will ever own, and yet rarely does anyone read it.”

So my dear friends, I’m dusting off the ol’ brain, and climbing up on that well-worn soapbox to present with great adieu, and sexy-model-smoochy lips:

Mommy Motivation Insurance Primer, part I:

Girlfriend, I just got the cutest shoes and the best insurance policy ever!

I know, it’s as old as the hills, right? lolol So, what exactly IS insurance? Peace of mind, mommies! And that’s pretty much it! Just beautiful peace of mind, and in the worst case scenario, financial indemnity.

For example, let’s take, ahhhh, I dunno….. off the top of my head: a car accident.

Let’s say the car accident causes you an injury. Now insurance can’t heal you, or take away a traumatic memory or give you back lost time. But it CAN restore you financially to where you were before the accident. So this will include direct costs arising from the accident. (IF you purchased the right insurance, with the right coverages, in full discloser and not doing somethin’ bad at the time!*) Medical bills, vehicle damage - No problem. Well, unless you count a sore back, and a hideous neck brace making you look and move like a giraffe.

But let’s also say that all the lawns in your neighbourhood, including yours, are perfectly manicured; and all the neighbours get up at 5am on Saturday to begin clipping the grass with scissors? As far as I know, there is no loss-of-gardening-ability-due to-injury-as-a-direct-result-of-loss coverage. But it could be covered in the spirit of your policy. I would expect that your little grass obsession will put you back financially because of this accident. According to the principle of indemnity, you may be covered for that.*

If, however, you’re growing a wheat field (with a decorative bunch of crab grass and wild ‘flowers’) in your lawn, and all of the sudden decide that you ought to dust off the lawn mower, or, ahem, hire yard help. Well hon, your field just may have to wait until your injury is healed.

But that isn’t fair (in more ways than one), you say? The lawn-obsessed people get more from their insurance than the field growers? Well, actually they both get what they paid for: financial indemnity. And by the way, the more the insurance company stands to loose by insuring you (and your perfect lawn), the more your premiums will be. You see?

Never fear dear friends, I’m not even close to finished on my soapbox here! rotflol - but you’ll have to wait til part II.

* Very important: lets pretend I have footnotes and explanations all over the place, and really good little tidbits about how I’m not responsible if you take my blog entries and get yourself in trouble because of them. Oh what the heck! I don’t need footnotes - this is a PRIMER people! And more importantly, this is MY soapbox, and I like it that way! lol

This is new!!  It is a “toot your own horn” community! rotflol :)  isn’t that hilarious.  I’m ALL IN! And c’mon, get your head outta the gutter - not that kind of toot!

Seriously - I walked to the sitter’s house TWICE today!  Usually I take the car to pick them up.  But noooooooo, I WALKED!  It feels great!
Wanna join the Tuesday “Toot”?  This here should help ya out!

Hello Mommies,

You DO know by now that when I say Tidy Tuesday, it really is translated: tidy tuesday. Here’s a printable I made for my other gluten free site, that you might use to tidy up those recipes!

Click on the link below to go to my GF site and download the printable cards.

Printable recipe cards | Strawberries are Gluten Free