The Village That Plays Together

Rose and Chase (Tick-Tock ) I was sitting downstairs in our currently rented home last week; I was sitting on a sectional sofa that my mother in law decided should live in our house because her rental was too small. I am convinced that this couch was designed by and for The Dutch Giant. If you don’t know who he is, look him up. The seat depth on this thing is rediculous! Even my husband can…

What is a heart? Is it a backwards 3 with a v stuck on the side? That is how the emoji began. And what did that even mean when people took the time to type it out, back then you had to really think it through and be purposeful in the way you typed it so you knew you were making a heart instead of an angry face or may be the one with your tongue sticking out. Unlike how it is now where you just…

Wow it has been a very long time since I wrote…a whole move later and life is so much different. but onto the question at hand: I don’t know that there is now a place where I feel angry…although if I get called to one of my kid’s schools for a stupid reason I tend to get irritable. I am trying to think about the little Anger guy in the movie Inside Out and when he is driving me…and yes, it…

It is so funny that I always got the image of “The Thinker” by Auguste Rodin. This is probably how most people looked while sitting on the toilet before we all had iPhones to occupy our minds and hands. Although I know some of us counted floor tiles, connected dots in the ceiling tiles, or read the gossip on the walls…some of the best limericks I have in my head are from bathroom walls! It was…

I know this has taken some time to get this post done. See, for me I am one of the lucky ones who gets to do everyday what I really want to do. I get to not only be a mom, but I am an active mom 24/7. I’m the crazy lady the schools get when they just have to talk to a responsible adult…boy, have I got them snowed, I am neither responsible or adult! So most of the time I am where I want to spend…

Since I am a stay-at-home mom, I spend the majority of my time at home. I deal with the everyday things of life, like baths…laundry…eating…cleaning…and all that stuff. I prefer to be at home with my kids.

Number 1: I would NEVER travel in the winter…I hate the snow, like LOATHE the snow. I’m not overly fond of the cold, but I solve that by not getting out of bed…and drinking lots of hot chocolate. Number 2: I don’t want to travel to a place that is cold or snowy all year round…for example there is NOTHING in Russia or Greenland or Norway that holds any interest for me…ever! And before anyone…

So for a month…I need to have unlimited funds…or free tickets to everything, everything under the sun! There is everything to see and do, and I would need dresses and capes and gloves and jewelry and shoes and so many other things! It is rediculous how much stuff I would need just to see everything…and if my husband doesn’t want to go everywhere with me, then I would have to have an escort. New…

Silver Bullet Where I feel free is on a good roller coaster. And I mean a good one; it needs to be smooth and not have a huge drop. I am particularly fond of suspended coasters because they seem to be the smoothest ride, and there is a certain freedom in having your feet hanging. My current favorite is The Silver Bullet at Knotts Berry Farm. Recently we got passes for our family to Knotts and I…

Ok, so this isn’t going to be overly surprising for people who follow my blog. I have a large amount of anxiety any and all times that I go into public, this is why I try to make the amount of time that I am out of my house as short as possible, or I take a safe person with me. Barkley is my companion, and is trained to be with me no matter where I go…but he is getting old. What I have learned to…

So the next question is: Where do you feel safe? In my happy place I feel the safest in my bed, under my weighted blanket. With my Barkley next to me and Ryane on the other side of the bed. I love being in that spot…it is comfortable, warm, and safe. The best part about this place is that I can create it any place we live! That is the best safe place you can create; the kind you take with you.…

I have decided, as a distraction from the stress of packing my house and selling, I am going to do this series of questions as a series of blogs…because why not!?! It seemed like a list that would make you think, and I need a distraction. So…Where would you move to if you could? Let’s go through the list that shuffled through my brain image file first… First, out in a cabin in the woods. This…

Day 31: Weird Quirk of Mine

So I asked my husband about this one and he told me that I should say my laugh. Apparently when I laugh really hard, and at the end of my laugh when I’m trying to breathe I make a funny noise. I know this about myself…I have breathing issues while laughing…I tend to have to run to the potty because laughing makes me pee too.

I like Doritos dipped in sour cream and Code Red Mountain Dew. I don’t get to eat it very much anymore because my husband and son both like Doritos and eat everything in the house.

Day 29: Top Things on my Bucket List

1: To stand in the Sistine Chapel and see The Pieta. 2: To stand in front of the Mona Lisa in the Louve in Paris 3: To stand in front of Starry, Starry Night. 4: To go to all of the Legolands all over the world.

Yesterday I cried for my baby-girl. She is struggling with school right now, and I can’t break through the box-like thinking that schools and teachers have. Finally after a day of panic attacks I had an idea that may solve her being made to feel stupid, and my wanting to eat peoples faces. Independent study. Casey started making money a couple weeks ago…so technically she is employed and working.…