Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Here's to Another New Beginning...
I can’t believe I started, kept up on (somewhat), and then just pretty much gave up on keeping up with my blog. So today as I was reading another blog, I came across a website that could turn your blog into a book, Blog2Print. Cool, huh? So now I am totally inspired to start blogging again. I plan on printing the book up to as much of 2010 that I have completed and starting a new book for 2011. Maybe once I have the book in my hand, it will keep me on track for this year.
I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that I stay on track, but a few small reminders here and there couldn't hurt. Hint, hint :)
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Ten Tales from Ten Years Ago
I know this is technically 2011, but I found this that I had typed up and planned on posting in 2010. So this is my official
final 2010 post (four months late, lol) I guess that with Gauge’s birthday being two days ago, it made me want to post this even more...
Ten years ago it was the year 2000, and I 22 was years old and...
1. We had survived the Y2K scare, which obviously I wasn’t too worried about because I feel asleep before 10 p.m. on New Years Eve and woke up after midnight to see that the world hadn’t come to an end. I truly think it was a huge hoax to make money.
2. Gauge was born in April. My first pregnancy, my first child, my first boy.
3. I was in my first year of my new job at the Courthouse and knew then how lucky I was to have that job.
4. I thought that 30 was old and I guess somehow thought that my life would end at that point. I wanted to be married, done having children, and comfortable with exactly what I had, so I could be done making any accomplishments...because after all, I would be too old to accomplish anything. Haha! How naive I was. I had no idea how little I knew.
5. I also naively thought that there was no way I could ever love another child as much as I loved my sweet baby Gauge at that time. Although that love for Gauge has never ceased, it’s actually increased by the tons, it’s amazing the room you have in your heart for all the children that call you mom.
6. Less than a mile from my house lived the soon-to-be love of my life (and now husband) and his daughter, Alyssa. We had never met even though we lived in the same small town.
7. George W. Bush won the presidential nomination against Al Gore. I wasn’t too involved at politics at that time, but having a political job sparked my interest, so I was quite disappointed because I, as most of the rest of the Democrats in the county...felt like it was all 'fixed' since he didn't win the most popular votes in the country.
8. I started going to church again more regularly, and I feel that my personal relationship with Jesus Christ was renewed and the seed was planted to make it grow.
9. My Godson Nathaniel passed away the day he was born, on July 11. Michelle & Kris (his parents) lived in Bowling Green at the time, and Nathaniel was born in a hospital up there by emergency c-section, so I never got to see him until at his funeral. He and Gauge would have been a mere 3 months apart in age had Nathaniel lived, and there are still times that I think of what great friends they would have been throughout their lives.
10. I learned that I was much stronger than I knew and that I could make it raising Gauge on my own. We all know it didn’t turn out that way, but for that amount of time, I even surprised myself at how much I was able to do on my own.
final 2010 post (four months late, lol) I guess that with Gauge’s birthday being two days ago, it made me want to post this even more...
Ten years ago it was the year 2000, and I 22 was years old and...
1. We had survived the Y2K scare, which obviously I wasn’t too worried about because I feel asleep before 10 p.m. on New Years Eve and woke up after midnight to see that the world hadn’t come to an end. I truly think it was a huge hoax to make money.
2. Gauge was born in April. My first pregnancy, my first child, my first boy.
3. I was in my first year of my new job at the Courthouse and knew then how lucky I was to have that job.
4. I thought that 30 was old and I guess somehow thought that my life would end at that point. I wanted to be married, done having children, and comfortable with exactly what I had, so I could be done making any accomplishments...because after all, I would be too old to accomplish anything. Haha! How naive I was. I had no idea how little I knew.
5. I also naively thought that there was no way I could ever love another child as much as I loved my sweet baby Gauge at that time. Although that love for Gauge has never ceased, it’s actually increased by the tons, it’s amazing the room you have in your heart for all the children that call you mom.
6. Less than a mile from my house lived the soon-to-be love of my life (and now husband) and his daughter, Alyssa. We had never met even though we lived in the same small town.
7. George W. Bush won the presidential nomination against Al Gore. I wasn’t too involved at politics at that time, but having a political job sparked my interest, so I was quite disappointed because I, as most of the rest of the Democrats in the county...felt like it was all 'fixed' since he didn't win the most popular votes in the country.
8. I started going to church again more regularly, and I feel that my personal relationship with Jesus Christ was renewed and the seed was planted to make it grow.
9. My Godson Nathaniel passed away the day he was born, on July 11. Michelle & Kris (his parents) lived in Bowling Green at the time, and Nathaniel was born in a hospital up there by emergency c-section, so I never got to see him until at his funeral. He and Gauge would have been a mere 3 months apart in age had Nathaniel lived, and there are still times that I think of what great friends they would have been throughout their lives.
10. I learned that I was much stronger than I knew and that I could make it raising Gauge on my own. We all know it didn’t turn out that way, but for that amount of time, I even surprised myself at how much I was able to do on my own.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Some things should never be tossed
...and never will if I have anything to do with it. I am at this very moment, currently taking on an exceptionally challenging, pain in the hiney, domestic task of preparing and tagging items for our annual yard sale. I’ve been going to the basement and little by little, cleaning things aka toys out.
You know how you go along, or at least I do, happily piling and stashing and rearranging, over and over and over again, until one day you wake up and there's a team from A&E's Hoarder's at your front door? Ok so they’ve never been to my house, but I think Rod secretly has them on speed dial for that moment when I go over the edge. My “hoarding” has been justified and rationalized by me as “everything I keep is sentimental”. Ok, ok I know. But it sounds like the right thing to say. Haha.
Ok so, I am not even close to getting everything cleaned out, but I am having these little moments of baby Gauge-ness because I’m finding things that were so near and dear to him when he was a wee one.
The grocery cart, keys, and golf game. Oh the flood of memories that comes back of chubby toddler. Gauge pushing around the grocery cart with the kiddos I used to babysit playing store. Gauge dragging around those keys and pushing the buttons over and over until the batteries went dead (or sounded like something was dying when he pushed the button). And Gauge playing putt-putt with his very first video game to play on the television. Fact is, at the age of three, he could whip anyone’s hiney in a game of putt-putt so when he got this game, he would get so frustrated that he couldn’t win every time. That was a valuable lesson for him to learn the hard way at the ripe old age of three. So for those, ahem...no names will be named lol, who believe I should end up on an episode of Hoarders, here’s to the sentimental treasures found in the middle of my cluttered paradise. I will treasure them forever, because they each have a story to tell.
Here's to sentimental treasures found in the midst of a hoarder's paradise. And to the simple and fine art of saving our stories.
You know how you go along, or at least I do, happily piling and stashing and rearranging, over and over and over again, until one day you wake up and there's a team from A&E's Hoarder's at your front door? Ok so they’ve never been to my house, but I think Rod secretly has them on speed dial for that moment when I go over the edge. My “hoarding” has been justified and rationalized by me as “everything I keep is sentimental”. Ok, ok I know. But it sounds like the right thing to say. Haha.
Ok so, I am not even close to getting everything cleaned out, but I am having these little moments of baby Gauge-ness because I’m finding things that were so near and dear to him when he was a wee one.
The grocery cart, keys, and golf game. Oh the flood of memories that comes back of chubby toddler. Gauge pushing around the grocery cart with the kiddos I used to babysit playing store. Gauge dragging around those keys and pushing the buttons over and over until the batteries went dead (or sounded like something was dying when he pushed the button). And Gauge playing putt-putt with his very first video game to play on the television. Fact is, at the age of three, he could whip anyone’s hiney in a game of putt-putt so when he got this game, he would get so frustrated that he couldn’t win every time. That was a valuable lesson for him to learn the hard way at the ripe old age of three. So for those, ahem...no names will be named lol, who believe I should end up on an episode of Hoarders, here’s to the sentimental treasures found in the middle of my cluttered paradise. I will treasure them forever, because they each have a story to tell.
Here's to sentimental treasures found in the midst of a hoarder's paradise. And to the simple and fine art of saving our stories.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
It's been a long time...
It's been almost two months since my last post. Seriously where does two months go? It's time to get back on track. So since I seemed to skip right over Gauge's birthday, those will be my next posts.
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