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100 Things I Love
The day before Thanksgiving, I found via a Facebook shout out, a blog post by Jennifer P. Williams, whom I had never heard of before. 100 Things I Love. Simple enough and full of amazing things to well, love. At the end of the list, she wrote Inspired by Melisa Wells. WAIT, I KNOW HER! I then clicked on the link which took me to Melisa’s blog, which I read regularly even following her posts on Bloglovin. Funny how things like that happen; finding someone you know through someone you just met. So this inspired me to create my own 100 things I love list in my phone, adding things…
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Smothered, Covered, Chopped-Florida Spring Break Part Two
I mentioned in part one the traffic hell we experienced on the road to Destin. Just after the Alabama rooster incident, Ella got car sick and had “sick” all over her clothes. Thank God she had layers on (us Midwesterners, always ready), so we literally stripped her down in an abandoned parking lot, threw out her blanket and made an executive decision: she is riding in the front seat. I got in the driver’s seat, and my two teens in the backseat were furiously googling “age allowed to sit in the front seat” from the back seat. It turns out that it was legal in Alabama, I know you were…
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Did You Know There Are 34 Menopause Symptoms?
I have gone through menopause for the past ten years. Just kidding, it’s only been like two. It just feels like ten. Because the symptoms of menopause are SUCKING MY SOUL RIGHT OUT OF MY BODY. I’m sorry, did that slip out? According to the website 34 Menopause Symptoms Dot Com (yes, it’s a real website. I think), there are indeed 34. So they decided to create a website to inform others that just when you think you have enough things to worry about in your life as a woman, you also get 34 gifts at the end of your period. Kind of like a hormonal Hanukkah. Being a woman…
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What Happens in Vegas Stays In Salt Lake City
Full disclosure: I wrote this title a week before we left to go on vacation. It was a witty title and as you know, those are hard to come by. So I wrote the title, pressed the Save Draft button and off I went to my normal non-blog writing summer life. In fact, I have seven titled posts with no body written because of the self-imposed blog grounding I had set for myself this summer. To be clear, I was still writing for my other job, in addition to all the other duties if you thought I was slacking this summer. But I did indeed slack because of SUMMER. So…
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Investing
A month ago, my husband messaged me a Jim Carrey video that made me cry. Not laugh, but cry. I am getting ahead of myself. I have mentioned here before that my husband is a good golfer. He was on the varsity team his freshman year, lived and breathed golf from the age of 10, and truly just loved the sport. He should have played in college but he didn’t. He is vague about it and makes comments about being afraid and immature but here is the one thing that always stands out: regret. And it hurts my heart a little because I feel like all of those years ago, he…
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A Golf Tournament That I Can Get Excited About Means Lots of Caddyshack Quotes #LPGA #ULInternationalCrown
My husband is a really good golfer. I don’t know this for a fact because I have never seen him golf but I have been told this. A lot. By many people. He won’t ever brag about it so I will for him. He’s good. He’s been golfing for 36 years now…holy crap, I am old enough to be with someone who has been golfing for 36 years. He made the Varsity team his freshman year, worked at a local golf course as a caddy all throughout high school and college and when he wasn’t working at a golf course, he was golfing. It is his “thing” and honestly, if…
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In Ten Years
So, a couple of things have happened since my husband and I got married on May 27th, 2006. We have seen a loved one fight cancer and win. But we lost a really amazing grandma. Then we gained two equally amazing new humans. We watched family members move far, far away. But then we got two members back again and we aren’t letting them go this time. We lost some friends. But we gained some really kick-ass new ones. And the friends who stayed around the whole time, well they deserve an award and cake. We’ve lost some jobs. But in the process, we’ve gained some cool new opportunities. We…
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The Bench
Ten years ago this month, my daughter and I got married to my husband in a barn. I have talked about it here before. I am not going to re-write that post because I really love it and that isn’t what this post is about. As I said, it was held in a historic barn from the 1800s that was moved down the road to the site where it sits presently and on the day we got married in 2006. I spy a bench. The barn isn’t that particularly nice to look at from the outside as far as barns go. I mean it isn’t ugly but I have…
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Netflix Knows Our Family Dynamic #StreamTeam
It is so funny how Netflix has a pulse on my life. Each month we are given a prompt, a gentle nudge by Netflix. So this month, it was about being in an unconventional family. To tie in with the new show Grace and Frankie. This month, the question was “what is it about your modern family that you wouldn’t trade for anything in the world?” Our little family has been very modern, unconventional, quirky, whatever you want to call it. It has been that way for almost nine years now. Well, nine years Wednesday, if we are being exact. Nine years ago, Wednesday, my then six-year-old daughter and…
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The Day I Found Out I Was in Menopause
I’m nothing if not blunt. That is who I am. My whole life I have been known to have a “way with words”. That is a nice way of saying “I have no tact at times when tact is needed”. I would never have done well in olden times. You know, when women were to be quiet and discreet. Seen and not heard. I would not have done well with that AT ALL. I can actually hear my grandma laughing from Heaven at that comment. I have always been loud, obnoxious at times, I walk with purpose, I belch at inappropriate times, I laugh boisterously and even snort at times…
