So this is blog world huh?

Our Batty Family

NEVER A DULL MOMENT...

It is sooooo CrAzY how life can change so fast!

One day you wake up with house full of cute happy little babies, money, shopping, & no worries.

And the next day your children are big, your poor, and working 3 jobs and still worried!

I’m not complaining, just saying how weird it is!

I used to watch The Twilight Zone in amazement of the twisted, bizarre, possibilities of life through Alfred Hitchcock’s eyes, as I was mesmerized by his stories.

And now I’m living in one!

And whats up with the white lines under my post?

~See…WeIrD~

Man it’s a HUGE Intimating World!

And I am just a teeny tiny piece of  it.

I don’t know if anyone else can relate, but it seems every time I do something and find out, Wow hey I’m pretty good at this, and I LOVE it! Everyone else seems to be doing it too, and faster and better!

Blogging for instance, I thought I’d give it a shot, someone really cool (actually the coolest cool) told me buyers want to know “who” they are buying from. They want to know you, and blogging would be my way to show them I really am this cheesy chick I say I am!  So, I decided to go ahead and put myself out there. Soon I  staring noticing other blogs, and then more, and then hundreds, and then I realized almost everyone in the world had a blog! And a fancy one, not like my high school diary one your reading here! They were really professional adult blogs with ad’s and scrolling images, and FOLLOWERS that aren’t spammers!What is that all about??!! And at first I was like its ok its  cool, different strokes for different folks, and really I’m just here to let people that would like to buy from my family’s Jewelry and artwork  at  battyhead.com know who we are and what we’re all about, but then I realized…

No one really wants to buy our Art and Jewelry! Sure at first people were buying, but the trend was friends and family, and no one that didn’t know us. Chris and I definitely started to get down and feel embarrassed, useless, and like loosers… People would try to make us feel better by saying things like, “The economy…” & “people just can’t justify jewelry the way they used to…” or “its hard to advertise…” But then  looking further into the Internet after I checked out other handmade jewelers and saw, no that not true, they were making crazy sales!! Then I started hearing, “oh my Aunt, or Friend, or sister makes jewelry too!” and from the sounds of it, they were making a living from it! Where to me, its just become a therapeutic hobby….So once again I’m on the bottom of the food chain.

Finding and getting the job, Twitter, Facebook, childrens and neighborhood party invites, HOA meetings, exercising, being green,volunteering, thank God I don’t care about parking in the last spot so far in the back  you need a stun gun to walk to and from your car!

It is a big world, and I enjoy being simple, but sometimes reality, and I use the word “sometimes” very loosely, I notice that I am like a tiny little speck, preferably sparkly, that most people never even get a chance to see. And that makes me a little sad…                 

The Right Kind Of Addiction

Yesterday was Mardi Gras 2010! A holiday I LOVED when I lived in Florida and could go party at Pleasure Island with all my crazy Disney friends. I have so many great memories and I am so grateful I was able to party like a rock star back then.
But now its I have lots of little children and fun holidays are spent a little differently…but still a great time!
This year we were invited to a rehabilitation and retirement center for their Mardi Gras party, to help out and spread cheer.
We had a really nice time, and were so happy and touched to have the chance to help in making these wonderful people forget, if even just for 1/2 hour where they were.

There are sooo many ways to help people, and it is a memory that will stay with you forever, just like my my rock star days, yet it feels even better.
I will never forget all the times my family and I have shown up in a children’s home to hide Easter eggs, or a retirement home to pass out homemade crosses, or to homeless shelters to pass out hugs. Sure its awkward at first for everyone, but once you remember why you are there and jump on in, it becomes so right.
It really is a natural high when you look into their eyes and see the sadness or worry move to the side, and for that moment feel like everything is gonna be alright, and to know that you made that happen for them.
Its addiction I wish everyone had.

I know everyone gets busy, and it may seem like a lot of work, but if you are ever free, all you need is Google and a phone, call around and see where you fit in, in your community. Check online volunteer search engines, you never know what you may find. Next month we get to go take care of mare foals!!!
You can even go read to dogs in animal shelters, gather blankets for babies in hospitals! There are so many people that need us, not our money but our love.
You only live once, and the gift of making other people feel happy, is one of the most rewarding experiences you will ever have, and to see your children right there with you, feels comparable to the minute you brought them into this world.
So please, think about it, and maybe you can get addicted too:)

Music is Sanity

When we decided to start popin’ out children left and right…I realized, oh man I need a plan…how ironic I sound like Dr.Seuss… We have always been big into arts and crafts but there is only so much paint and glue a woman can take!

Chris and I have always used music for therapy besides the usual pleasure…
Then when we got pregnant, while listening to music… we let the babies enjoy the headphone on the womb Disney songs party daily! And when they were born we did a lot of dancing and singing with them, matter of fact with Bella-Sky, #1 Chris didn’t know what to say so he would just hum at her!
Later we bought the XM radio for showers, and to go with the AWESOME base speaker in the car. There is nothing like a mini van speeding down the street vibrating to Ludacris!
Music is just who we are,I mean Chris puts on music while he’s cooking to match the meal, I can’t tell you how many times I have been in a Mexican and Italian restaurant in my own kitchen! For cleaning Evanescence and Bjork usually come over!
And it would be wrong if I didn’t tell you how many times I caught Chris dancing with Aurora to Tom Jones, shes a lady…

So it would only be appropriate that we made family music videos.
And here they are, Enjoy! Oh and we welcome requests!

!!!Click  on the YouTube link below and enjoy our video library!!!

BattyHead On YouTube