We've Moved

Cannwin, her children, loved ones, trusted friends, and blogging circle have moved to a private blog.

If you feel you genuinely qualified as one of these and just happened to miss the memo, Cannwin would love to have you email her at

cannwin (at) ymail (dot) com

and request an invitation.
She would be happy to extend her love to all.

It was a fantastic ride here at The Great and Random Ramblings and she will miss it terribly.

Have a wonderful life.

xoxox

Privacy

One of the things I have been dealing with a lot lately is an incredible amount of opinion sharing regarding how I should behave.

Since there is absolutely nothing in my life that is illegal, dangerous, or detrimental to my children this sort of behavior has become a great nuisance to my existence.

It is also a great point of stress for me.

It is not uncommon for me to receive comments about my stability (since I have moved three times this year I unstable) , my choices (evidently dating is rash), and my general ability to function on an adult level.

This has created an issue where I want to blog but am hesitant to say how I feel for fear of the repercussions to myself both emotionally and custodially. 

I live in fear that my every move will be twisted in a fashion that will enable my children to be taken from me.

It's exhausting.

So.... with that in mind I have decided to go private. I want to keep my followers, but I want to do that in a manner that doesn't let unwanted eyes watching every move I make.

(Even saying that I want to go private makes me brace for the inevitable "What are you trying to hide?" comments. I assure whoever is spying on me today that I am not going private to hide any perceived illegalities but to keep you at bay!!!)

Paranoid much?

Yes. That's me.

I never thought I would be the sort of person who hung out in the quiet recesses of the world wide web but that is where I am going.

Will you join me?

It will mean you have to send me your email address so that I can add you to my readership. It means that you will have to log in to view my email. It means you will have to work to keep up with me.

But I would love very much if you stayed around.

You can send your requests to me at:

cannwin (at) ymail (dot) com

I will give it a few days before I actually go private.

Thank you for your love and support and patience with me during this incredibly difficult time of my life.

Always,

Cannwin

Getting Back on My Feet

It is finals week for me, and I am extremely excited to be done with it. I overdid myself this semester and took 14 credits. That's five classes.

This may not sound like much (just two over the average) but for a single-mom with four children and a job this was insanity. Especially since two of those classes were English classes and I was forced to write WAY more than I had time for (I had three essays due this week totaling nearly 20 pages of writing and another 3-4 of pure citations).

Also, I moved.

Yep.

I moved in with this girl here (in the middle) and her partner (not in the pic):

They are the best and gave my children and I a place to stay until I have my feet back under me. The rent is half what I was paying. It's a tight fit for all of us but it's so much better than where the kids and I were at that I couldn't be more grateful.

Next semester I am going to be dropping down to part-time and focusing on working more hours so I can actually afford to live.

I'm also considering going into a technical program... but I have only toyed with that idea, nothing solid.

It's extremely hard being the sole financial supporter of four very fantastic little people. I am happy, that's for sure. Happier than I've been in a very long time, but I am tired.

Always, always, always daydreaming about naps.

I am growing and learning and loving though and I can't complain.

Life moves on and I am satisfied with being where I am.

I will attempt to write more on here now that I will have more time to do so.

As for right now, I have a math final to go take.

Wish me luck!

A Thorough Scolding

I have been informed that I don't post enough blogs and am missed by the populace at large.

Lol sorry.

I will give you the low-down on my life.

Yesterday I finished a three page single-spaced paper regarding te softcore discrimination that single mothers face. It's the beginnings of my final paper in the class--which has to be ten pages (hopefully double-spaced).

I took a Spanish test yesterday as well as a math test. I did well on the math not so sure about Spanish.

I also went to a lecture given by a woman named Helen Whitney (??) who is a big deal documentarian and has won Emmies and the like for her work. She also met the Pope (among others).

When I was done with the lecture my friend picked me up and we enjoyed a 'girls nights.' we watched a movie called Zombiland. It was ok but not really my style of movie.

Today the kidlets are up north enjoying their fall break and heading to the local amusement park for their birthdays which are this weekend (Irish Twins). They will be 11 and 10!!!

I can't believe my babies are so old.

On another note... I can always tell when my kids have been messing around with my iPod.... Cuz afterward my camera roll looks like this:

That's My Kids

We are at Gap and there's these moccasins for sale. The boys go over to check them out and the Mischievite says "My friend has a pair of these!" 

Albowin snatches them from his brother's hand and says..... "Are those real ones like really made from Indians!?"

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On the way to school we see this hot air balloon. The kids are all loving it, then:

Vicbowin says: "I've never been on a hot air balloon."

Albowin: "Me neither."

Mischievite: "Neither have I."

Remewin: "I have! In Afwica."

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