
Hello, I am Sami and welcome to my blog. For a few weeks now, I have been feeling some really big "growth spurts" inside of me. I am 30 something wife, mom/stepmom who has always put her children first. As of this year one of our sons will become an adult, two of our children will become teens and one will become a preteen. While I will continue to make my children a priority I must put my husband and our marriage first. I will also focus on bringing the woman within me out. I look forward to this new chapter in my life in order to watch our children grow into responsible adults, to love and cherish my husband and to be the beautiful, confident woman God created. Please join me in my journey and always feel free to comment, offer advise, or just say hello!
Hi Sami .. good to be back from Africa and love your site

I am done stewing about this PTA thing. It was on my mind all night long after our meeting up until I finally fell asleep and it was the first thing I thought about when I woke up this morning. I sent out an email again this morning to the 50+ people and didn't get a response from them. I finally did get a response from a gal that said she would be willing to do a co-president with someone else because she is already going to be 1st VP at her younger child's elementary school. I thought about it and decided I could do a co-president with her. She is a really nice gal and I think we could work well together. Then I got an email from another person on our committee that thinks she has a strong lead from a gal who has been one of our past presidents. She would actually be GREAT at it. She communicates very well and is a take charge kind of person. She wants the weekend to think about it. I really hope she pulls through. Me and the other gal were going to do it in order to save our PTSA so we will not be hurt in the least if we are not president.
In it all I came to the realization that I truly do not care for our current president. She wants everything done "her" way when this is an organization for our children, parents and teachers. Who does she think she is? Her comment, which was directed at me since I am the chairman about how our committee cannot disban until we find a president or our PTA will fail really urked me. Like I said I am not an aggressive person so I didn't say anything. However, one of the other committee members who is more aggressive snapped back at her saying "It isn't as if we haven't tried. We have contacted EVERYONE on the lists we have. We are at a place where we are out of names." I have been on or worked with the PTA for several years and I have never ran across someone like this person. I have totally stressed myself out for the past 24 hours because she wants the beloved slate hung up in the office 25 days prior to it needing to be up there. Well...sugar...you can kiss my grits!!! We will get the slate up by the due date and we WILL have a president and THANK GOODNESS it won't be YOU!!
Not another thought about it. I am at peace now.