These are a few of my favorite things.....

Lately I have been doing some reflecting...and and rereading some of my crazy posts....its slightly therapeutic....

But I have also discovered that while I am striving to be a great mother to my most amazing girlies, and a submissive and loving wife to my husband.....I must also realize the little things about them that I adore...

so here's a list of those things ( i am not going to sing like Julie Andrews or anything)

My girlies:

Oldest-- she's so beautiful, like really

She lives up to her name :)

She has an amazing smile that lights up the room

She is a great friend to those around her---very compassionate!

She has a fantastic sense of humor

She is brilliant---seriously, she is a great problem solver

She is a loving big sister

She has a heart that speaks to other people's souls

She is an awesome hockey player--I love watching her skate

I love her to the moon and back!!!

Youngest--She's also adorable

She is adventurous

She has the cutest laugh

She races BMX, snowboards like nobody's business, snowshoes, and mountain bikes

She LOVES her momma's cooking (always a bonus)

She is intelligent -- also a great problem solver

She is creative-- the only kid i know that can turn "junk" into something with some glue and crayons

She has a heart that speaks to nature--- animals love her and butterflies use her for a landing site more often than not

She is fearless

I love her more than there are stars in the sky!

My Husband--

He is handsome

His smile is contagious

He has a heart of Gold!! He loves me so much!

He is a great provider

He makes me laugh

His hugs make any issue dissolve

His kisses are little love note reminders

He loves our girls

He is witty--not always a bonus when I am trying to win an disagreement

He loves God, and Blesses the socks off me!

I love him!!!!!

I love my little fam! I know we have our issues, some days more than a magazine company, but we get through..and most often it's with a smile at the end. We have so much fun together as a family. We have MANY laughs (most at the dinner table, which occasionally frustrates my husband :) )

I am truly Blessed! I would NEVER appreciate what I have today if I didn't go through the entire mess 9 years ago. I want my daughters to grow up knowing what Love looks like so that when they find someone to grow old with, they know what to look for. .... so they can have giggle fits at dinner, or air bands in the car.......

that's all I have for now...... until next time........................

Let's play a game....ball and chain?

ok ok so yesterday was a pretty average day, by my standards anyhow, I mean i got up early and did my morning routine, WAY before most of you even think about rolling out of bed. I went to work, and had a pretty good day, considering I hang with pygmies, who can be very unstable and unpredictable, and did I mention I also work with a bunch of women, who could also fall into the same category as the pygmies, only the women can come with a side of a nasty attitude as well. I came home and my best friend was recording his weekly podcast with his friend, a media mogul, also which is not out of the ordinary, except that they normally do it on Monday night, but eh, it still worked out. I made some delicious french bread pizza for dinner...YUM. Did a load of laundry and started to put away the clean dishes in the dishwasher. Now up until this point in my day I was having a very normal, some would even say boring, day. These are things I do pretty much all of the time.

That is, until, My Best friend came out with a brown box, not very large, but bigger than, lets say it was about the size of a box of pasta. He was grinning ear to ear when he told me that he got me something, as he handed me the pasta box.... naturally I was intrigued. As I was opening it, he told me I wasnt going to have that book smell anymore....leading me to think I was opening a Kindle...(which I totally want someday) as I opened it I saw a smaller box, navy blue in the center....My heart stopped, and I opened the box where i found the most beautiful, simplest, solitare diamond ring I had ever seen. I was in shock! ( i mean not COMPLETE shock because its not like we had never talked about getting married) I have been with this man for a little less than 2 years and he has been my Best Friend, he has helped me through so much crap, and here he was asking me to stand by his side for the rest of our lives! I naturally told him that I would think about it....................................................ok ok I told him right away YES! -----now let's just pause there for a moment, I know that some of you are thinking, wait, didn't she JUST get divorced, and yes, you would be correct. However, I have been separated (and by separated I mean not living together at all) from my ,now ex-husband, for a little more than two years. The divorce just took FOREVER!!! (clearly)

So after the excitement, he looked at me and said, how are we going to tell our families......*sigh* holy cow I hadnt thought of that!

So we (and when I say we, I really mean me mostly) decided to go public the following day. Because, here's the deal, I know A LOT of people and when I tell , even one, it will pretty much make the news at 5. No joke, I live in a smaller town and when you know everyone, well...you can imagine. So my best friend, who is now my fiancé, had to first tell his mom, before I told anyone because we wanted her to hear it from us, not everyone else.

And it went a little somethin like this... "mom I asked her to marry me and she said yes!" her response...."oh" nothing else just oh. I foresee some more "proving" of myself in the future. *SIGH*

We told all of his brothers, who were very excited, as were their wives. I told some of my friends, ok ok like all of my friends. Now the one question that EVERYONE (with the exception of my soon to mother-in-law, who is a woman of few words, I have decided) kept asking was... When's the big day? Holy cow, guys! I mean the man just asked me for heaven's sake, let's not get to far ahead of ourselves.........

At any rate I know that he is my bestest friend ever and I am so blessed that he asked me to be his wife.....now I hope I can live up to his expectations.........until next time.........

Ford Pinto and Cadillac

So I know this guy....he is truly my best friend......Well, I have spent a great deal of time with him, obviously, and I have come to notice a few differences between us. Now there are always the VERY obvious ones, you know, male/female, etc. But then there are ones that come out only after you have really spent time with that person. This is one of those differences.....

I, for the first time , was able to hang out with this person and his mother, which was a little....hmmm stressful, because let's just be honest, here, its easy to find someone who is your best friend all alone, but when any family is involved it gets...sticky. And here I was hanging with him and HIS mom, which is like the ultimate sticky....like laffy taffy on a hot July day sticky!, But THAT"S another story......while spending time with the two of them, I was listening to stories of his childhood, and all the while comparing to the stories of my childhood, well mentally anyway.....

His mom and he were talking about the first car he remembered being in with his mom...a Cadillac. Now this car is quite nice and a classic, in fact these cars are still being made, and are amazing cars! While he was reminiscing about the 8 track in the car I was thinking about the first car I remember being in with MY mom....a Ford Pinto! No joke, true story!

Ok the Pinto is a FAR cry from the Caddy, and was such a tragedy for Ford that they discontinued it, but not before my father purchased two more just like the first one we owned, on account that they were so cheap! Now this makes for a great thought and even a funny story, but in my head it illustrated how quite opposite My best friend and I were. I mean i guess I knew he had a different up bringing compared to me, but THIS simple memory was a mental illustration on how different it was. He is the baby in the family, I am the oldest, His family seemed pretty secure financially, Mine was broke as a joke, His family has a great reputation in the community, mine has a reputation alright..... his father served his time on his job and is now retired, my father just served Time...also No Joke. Pinto/Cadillac, he has brothers I have sisters,....His parents play poker for recreation, my parents used drugs for recreation , So, you say, what is the point to all of this?

Well i guess it just goes to show you that no matter where you come from or what you have or have not been exposed to, God puts people in each other's paths for a reason....Now even when we may not recognize the reason, it's still HIS call. I feel like I have been placed in My best friend's life to be a royal pain in the butt, and he would agree, but also I think it's because at the end of the day I make him think about somethings that otherwise would not ever question...i make him think about his faith and I think that's important! I also think that he makes me work on being a better person in the community.. Someone who can rise above the reputation that was handed down to me by my parents, someone who is different from everyone in my family. I know that My best friend will stand firm next to me in the front lines, and I have God to thank for making our paths cross.......that's it for now...until next time....