The perfect vacation

I'm hooking up with Northwest Mommy for Monday Listicles again. This week's theme is

about what makes a perfect vacation. These are in no particular order...

1. Frosty cold adult beverages

2. Getting my toes in the sand3. Excellent views

4. Napping in the salty breeze

5. Watching Husband try to eat things like this

6. Trying new things
 
7. Playing in the waves

8. Sprinkler fun in your pjs

9. Wearing appropriate eye protection

10. Watching her discover the world

Things that make me go HA

Here are a few things that have been cracking me up on Pinterest lately. You can check out my original Pinterest chuckles here.


And if you want to follow...you can do that here

*Original sources can all be found on my Pinterest board.

Are you ready for some football?

This past weekend Pie and I ventured into a rather chilly morning to cheer on my amazing nephew E in his championship football game. She was very excited to run around and watch the big kids.

While we were there the amazing Maura Roberts, of Maura Roberts Photography, grabbed a few shots of Pie. Seriously...I could just die from that little face.

 

Ode to high school

I'm hooking up with Northwest Mommy for Monday Listicles again. This week's theme is pretty free-form. It's just anything about high school. So I think I'm going to do a half and half list of things I loved and things I hated during those years...

1. LOVED: The dear friends I thought would be in my life forever. (Only one still is)
2. HATED: Discovering most of those friends kind of sucked.
3. LOVED: All my nerdy choir/drama time. I got to travel all over singing and be a general dork with people I genuinely liked.
4. HATED: Feeling so damn awkward all the time.
5. LOVED: My little car. Senior year I got a Honda hatchback and I loved that car. Had it not been totalled, I'd still probably have it.
6. HATED: Being tall and curvy. For some reason high school boys aren't into that. It didn't help that most of me friends were like 6 inches shorter than I was and peppy. I never could do peppy.
7. LOVED: All the music. My friends and I went to more concerts than I can count. I don't think I spent money on anything else during high school. We went and saw everything from They Might Be Giants to Prince, The Cranberries to the Indigo Girls. If a band came to town, chances were we'd be at the show.
8. HATED: The pettiness. Even at the time I thought it was stupid and juvenile. I just have no patience for it. Perfect example: senior year a girl I had been friends whose boyfriend I worked with, freaked out on me. Apparently one day at work I leaned over, he looked down my shirt and dug what he saw. He told her and made it seem like some mutual activity (I didn't even know he'd been looking until later...no chance in hell there would have been mutual activity with that dude. ew) anyway she freaked and decided the best way to handle it was to climb onto the roof of an SUV in the senior parking lot when it was the most full, point at me and start screaming whore. Good times. Then she spent the better part of the next month or so trying to convince everyone that I was some man eating, boyfriend stealing, back dweller. Even better times.
9. LOVED: That every once in awhile karma, is indeed, a bitch.
10. HATED: A lot more than I loved. I never quite clicked in high school. I was happy to be done with it and move on even though it was filled with lots of happiness and good times. It just wasn't my place to shine. I was saving that for college apparently.

Wow. That was harder than I was expecting. Well coming up with the things I loved anyway :)

Just 8 Lines

I'm joining up with Mama Kat again today. The prompt is "Write a post in just 8 lines..."

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November is National Adoption Month.

Every month is Adoption Month in my house because of her.

I wish I did more for the adoption community, wish I was more involved.

I am by no means an expert, but I think I could probably help somehow.

Adoption is awesome, amazing, overwhelmingly fantastic.

Adoption is also scary, confusing, and overwhelmingly huge.

At the core, my little one has two families that love her.

And I think that's pretty cool.

Wordless Wednesday {RAWR}

Separation

My girl. My sweet...

 Funny face making...

Full of attitude... 

Little girl is sad. 

She misses her mama. She cries for me, calls for me. She has stopped sleeping through the night in her room because she wakes up and is afraid I'm not there. She wakes up screaming, and crying, "mama, uh oh", "mama, help me", "mama mama mama."

And there is nothing I can do about it. In fact over the next few weeks I'll be away more than ever. This masters is kicking my butt and it is making my sweet girl hurt. It sucks and we are sturggling. I hate...HATE...that she is learning so young that mama may not always be there when you need her.

But she will always love you. And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII will always looooove youuuuuuuuuu (yeah...couldn't help it. But enjoy have Whitney, or Dolly, stuck in your head singing that for the rest of the day)