While I’m trying to get the words exactly right for a post on what I did last Friday (It was a fabulous day!) let’s start with where we ate and what I ate. I mean truthfully, food sometimes is a draw, right? We always joke with our Scuba Diving crew, if there’s food, they will come… Well… there might be some truth there.
Friday lead me to Bolivar, Missouri, to tour the local farming community with Missouri Women Bloggers and Missouri Farm Bureau. Rebecca from the MO Farm Bureau contacted us about touring local farms in Southwest Missouri. While we were out she chose a place for us to eat lunch, which happened to be Boones BBQ Barn in Bolivar. Then a special thanks to David Cribbs for contacting Bank of Bolivar to host us for lunch (a special thanks to them for buying our lunch! That was extremely nice and truly unexpected! Thank you!). And what better place to eat for a Farm Tour than at a BBQ Joint! Can I get an Amen?
Oh goodness, last night was a rough night. I’m pretty much dragging this morning. Baby girl went to sleep around 8:45pm last night, then woke up around 10, just as we were going to sleep and it was on. She has 3 new teeth that have sprung up over night and I don’t know if that played into it or not, but I passed out somewhere around 2am. I’m not sure if she was awake or asleep by that point or not.
I can tell you none of us wanted to get out of bed this morning, that’s for sure. Hubby gets up about 30-45 minutes before I do on Tuesday mornings, let’s just say my butt was dragging soooooo bad. My mom meets me to get squirrel girl on my way to class, I sent her a text at 8am saying we were on our way, don’t think we forgot, we were just dragging.
But let’s not focus on that… because even though I’m tired and last night sucked, I wouldn’t trade this life for the world. I love that little girl so much and I am blessed. So keeping on that blessed feeling, let’s go ahead and see what the 10 reasons were to smile about in September!
In no particular order…
5. Squirrely Girly got a month older… she’s now 15 months. Holy Cow!
7. Tbug and I went and participated in the Ride for Life. We had so much fun and she went on and on thanking anyone and everyone for letting her go.
It’s Friday. Do you hear that? Friday! Woohooooo! And I have some awesomely fun plans this weekend that include studying. Oh wait… that’s not awesome. How about doing a photo shoot for a friend’s senior pictures and riding horses. Now that sounds more like it! Although there will be some studying in there too… I need to read The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse. Ever read it? I hear it’s a funny, quick read. That’s what I need!
So since it’s Friday, let’s do some just quick minute thoughts, k? I saw a friend post on facebook yesterday that K isn’t a word, so Potassium to you too. ha! Okay, moving on….
1. Wednesday evening while I was driving to school my luck with red lights struck again. So far I haven’t had a typical Wednesday, but if it were a typical Wednesday, I would go through 19 stoplights. I hit 9 of them on red. Now I guess that isn’t tooooo bad but still, it’s not great. Over the weekend they were teasing me that at some point I had flashed a red light (I haven’t) and it was one with cameras, they caught it and now they want to see if I’ll do it again. Again, let me state clearly, I HAVEN’T DONE THAT. Okay now that that is clear… Hubby told me last night I needed to either find a red light and sit through it twice or else I needed to go outside, spin in 3 circles, spit, and curse to make it right with the light God’s so I didn’t get stuck at so many of them. hahaha… I told him the second was probably more something I could do.
Saturday evening I was sitting at my grandma’s table playing Aggravation with my grandma, dad, husband, and Tbug, Abug was switching laps she sat on. I received a text from my mom saying that a girl that I grew up showing horses with had been killed in a head-on collision Friday night. It hit me hard. Yes, we’ve drifted off through the years but still, I grew up with her competitively showing horses against her, yet we’re still a close family!
I hated to say anything on Facebook as well as on here simply because I asked for prayers for her family. I was not trying to make this about me in any way, shape, or form. I ask for prayers for her family. They’re the ones suffering. Yes, I was heartbroken to hear the news, but it isn’t about me, it’s about healing for her family. I wanted to make that clear.
I get accused sometimes of living in my own world. Usually, it is when someone is trying to get under my skin… especially if I’m ticked off already… fight fair, what’s that? But there is a lot of heartache in the world. That’s why it is always fun to participate in Emmy Mom‘s 10 Things to Smile About Memoir. Life is difficult, so any reason to smile is a good thing. And if you can laugh, that’s even better. Plus as an added bonus you burn 5 calories every time you laugh.
So now… 10 Reasons why I smiled in the month of August.
1. I’m really thinking that this post could be summed up by Vacation!
I swear, there are days when I can’t get my brain to shut down. I’m not sure what was up this morning but I woke up with all these random thoughts and decided I needed to try and get them out of my head so here I am, writing them down. That means you get a random Tuesday post courtesy of yours truly :).
So in the last week I’ve made 2 really dumb comments. I really wanted to question myself how I got out of bed that morning without hurting myself but whatever….
Comment one… I went to the lake over the weekend and got pink on my shoulders, AGAIN! I was like geez wouldn’t you think eventually this would quit happening. Well yes, it might but really… I guess that Greek blood didn’t come through on me because I’m fairly fair complected :(.
Comment two… This was a real doozy… Benjamin Franklin was a president. Yes, yes I said that even though I knew it wasn’t true. I did however find out he was the president of Pennsylvania which is basically like a governor. But whatever, it slipped out of my mouth and I felt like an idiot the minute I said it. Oy!
Hmmm maybe I shouldn’t have shared those…. I swear I have a brain!
For some reason I have the song “Kiss from a Rose” stuck in my head. I have no idea why. I don’t really listen to that song but there is a part of that song that is playing over and over and over and over in my head and it’s about to drive me nuts. I was hoping that putting that out in writing would MAKE. IT. GO. AWAY. NOW!!!!! :).
So here’s a good random one… Few weeks ago a guy I went to school from 2nd grade on had a post on his facebook page that said tell me your earliest memory of me. Mine actually went back to 2nd grade. He sat behind me in class and one day I was being ornery and kept taking his pencil away from him. Don’t remember why or what was provoking me to do that but I did. I had like 10 of his pencils lined up in a row on my desk. Every time I took his away, he’d get another one out.
Speaking of 2nd grade, Mrs. McCune called me up to her desk one day. She told me that she knew that I was the instagator for all the kids around me talking but she couldn’t catch me in the act. I spoke to quietly and I was too quick for her to catch me, so I needed to quit getting everyone around me in trouble. ha!
I’ve always said you need to watch out for the quiet ones…..
And I don’t remember anything… Although this proves that hubby might be right. ugh!
Man this summer is flying by way to fast. It makes me sad really! So I couldn’t decide if I wanted to do this blog post or if I wanted to blog about Abug’s birthday. I’m not going to lie, Abug’s birthday still has me a little distraught. I can’t believe I have a 1 year old now… So because of that… Here’s 10 Things to Smile About June Mem with EmmyMom.
So in no particular order…
3. My baby turned 1 year old. I’m still in denial about this… How do I have a toddler?
5. We finally got some new family photos. I was excited and LOVE them. Yes I took them. I put my mom behind the camera to help get Addison to look at the camera and smile… we got the look at least.
2. I had fun answering questions with song titles. I’m not going to lie, some didn’t make sense but some cracked me up for the way they actually answered the question.
10. This picture although it really has nothing to do with anything other than I had my sleeping baby in my arms. She was sure lovey that night.
Someone had a little to much fun at the lake this weekend. I had to pick her up so we could make the bed and I tried to keep her as much in the sleeping position as she was in as to not disturb her. So while I sit here and go through the 347.2566 pictures I took this weekend, I’ll leave you with this fun gem.
rules:
Put your iPod on shuffle
Put the song titles to answer the questions.
Some of these were hilarious! And now I have a baby clawing at my sunburn so I’m outtie….
IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
Can’t Help Falling in Love – Michael Bublé
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
The Cricket Song – Rich O’Toole
Why do you blog? Why do I blog? Why does anyone blog?
Lots of questions with lots of different answers depending on who is answering the question. There is no black and white to the answer, it’s all gray.
I’ve been debating why I blog a lot here lately. At one time I had a lot of followers and commenters but that has drifted by the wayside. Because of that I’ve even thought about closing up shop. Apparently I don’t have anything to offer anyone anymore… Or do I?
Why do I blog? Well one reason is to have a scrapbook so to say of my life. I mean life is busy and hectic. I’m now approaching the 1 year mark to having my beautiful baby girl and I can’t remember her birth story nearly like I did when it happened and I typed it out. I do wish I’d have done it in one post and not 5 or 6 or however many I wound up with, but that’s besides the point.
I have the timehop app on my cell phone and I absolutely LOVE when it reminds me of things that happened a year, two years, three years, and beyond ago. I just sit in awe and think, really, has it been that long?
In fact I was talking to Lourie yesterday and we were talking about her daughter’s boyfriend. I recalled a past boyfriend and she informed me it wasn’t a year ago (like I initially thought) but two years ago. Again, how did that happen?
April of 2013 my world got tipped upside down on it’s head and landed with a pretty hard thud, but you know what… I enjoy this life a whole lot better than what was happening prior to that. I don’t think I’d have some of the same experiences I had back then… so this blog is a great reminder. There are still days I cry that things happened the way they did but then when I start feeling sorry for myself I remember everything that was going on and bam, I smile. I mean had I not lost my job, I wouldn’t be back in school working on my Master’s which is something I always wanted to do.
Had I not lost my job I might not have my baby girl… not that work hindered that, so maybe I would have… I guess God is the only one who knows that.
So yes, I tend to think that I might close up shop on this blog and then I can’t wait to come back to this place. I know posts have been a little more scattered these last few months, School demanded a lot from me toward the end of the semester. And now it’s summer and I sometimes don’t realize my day is gone until it’s 11pm and I’m laying in bed trying to go to sleep between the baby girl kicking me and the husband snoring. Yes, we co-sleep right now, something I swore I’d never do. I guess I like the taste of crow :(.
So anyway if you’ve stuck through all the brain splatters I’ve had through the years. All the joys and trials I’ve face, I just want to say thank you! And if you’re new, please stick around, the best is yet to come!
I don’t plan on quitting this blogging gig anytime soon even though some days I think Yes I will. I won’t. So thank you for sticking around. I love ya!
Some days I’m late to the game, this week/month/day is one of those but I wanted to smile about the Month of May so please indulge me 🙂 I’m linking up with Emmy Mom! Guess I better hurry, my baby girl is emptying my bag. :). I love this life!
2. School’s out for Summer. Anyone else singing that song? I’m quite scared because I have a lot of books to read. If you’ve read these, please help me!!!
