Okay, so I’ve been losing steam and skipping a few days of the 31 Day Blog Challenge. If you know me well, you knew that was bound to happen at some point. I’m trying to keep up, but it’s been an overwhelming month! I was going to skip today, but I kind of think it’s a cool prompt because Tiffany (of Fabulous Finds by Tiffany) is basically asking us to talk about our good qualities with the prompt: List 10 thing that make you awesome. Since I spend a lot of time getting a bit down on myself, I thought [...] Read more »

I’ve never really sat and thought about my “bucket list,” mostly because I’d rather not think about dying. The whole idea of being dead freaks me out. It gets me thinking about being embalmed and buried or cremated, which makes me worry that somehow I’ll be able to feel it because we really don’t know what happens when we’re dead! I don’t want to be embalmed. I want to go to a body farm. They can toss me in the woods and let nature take its course…if I’m really dead. If, somehow, I come back to life, I can get [...] Read more »

I think I’m a pretty mellow and accepting person, or at least I try to be. I don’t get mad too often, and I’m pretty quick to forgive. Like all people, however, there are just certain things that completely get under my skin. While I don’t freak out and yell or anything like that, doing any of these things will earn you a passive-aggressive sigh and a bit of under-my-breath swearing. Read more »

About a year ago, as I was putting Jake to bed one night after he lost a tooth, he informed me that he thought I was the tooth fairy. He was only 6! How could he already know that! I, of course, overreacted and said “every time you say something like that, a fairy drops dead! Now clap your hands and say ‘I do believe in fairies!’” Perhaps some would say that wasn’t my best parenting moment, but I’m trying to hold onto my baby as long as I can! Read more »