My New Favorite Blog

I was trying to get inspiration for a new blog post when I stumbled across something that made me laugh so hard that I had to share it with you. It's the blog, Rants From Mommyland, OMG it is so funny! You must check it out. I added a few links to some of my favorite posts below. Their blog is my idea of the perfect blog and I wish it were mine. Ha-Ha! Hope you enjoy it and it gives you a much needed laugh that us mommies sometimes need. Oh, and it also made me want to run out and get some "mommy juice boxes", which is what Rants From Mommyland call a box of wine.

An Open Letter to 'Perfect Mommy':

http://www.rantsfrommommyland.com/2009/12/open-letter-to-perfect-mommy.html

Top Ten Things You Never Thought You'd Say: 

http://www.rantsfrommommyland.com/2010/03/top-ten-things-you-never-thought-youd.html

It's 8:03 am and I need an Adult Beverage:

http://www.rantsfrommommyland.com/2009/12/its-803-am-and-i-need-adult-beverage.html

Tea Party at Target: This one is funny but it is also a reminder to try and help another mama out every now and then because one day you might just be that mama that is about to lose your shit too and could use a helping hand.

http://www.rantsfrommommyland.com/2010/03/tea-party-at-target.html

P.S. I'm new to this whole blog thing and I'm not sure if this is proper blogging etiquette to post my own post about somebody else's blog and if I'm supposed to do some kind of special link back to them (however you do that) or credit it in some way properly. So.....if I did something wrong here, please let me know or if I should add something. 
Thanks, The Newbie!

Things I am currently obsessed with….

• Having a garage sale. I have never had one before and I can promise you this will be the last one I ever have! We have been trying to get everything together to have it for the past three weekends and it just hasn't worked out. But this weekend it has to happen. We borrowed tables from people and they must be returned.

• Blogging!!! I could spend hours reading about how to add blinkies, buttons, templates, backgrounds, headers and a million other things that I'm sure I haven't even discovered yet.

• Figuring out how to track ovulation, it's not as easy as I thought it would be. You need all sorts of things: Basal body thermometer, ovulation tests, charts, calendars, books to figure it all out and TIME!

 

• Letting go of things that are taking up too much space in our ever shrinking house. Everything has some sort of sentimental value to me. If it weren't for my husband I would probably end up on that show, Hoarders. 

• Couponing!!! Love saving money!

• Two songs that I swear if I play one more time my husband may kill me. The first is, The House That Built Me, by Miranda Lambert! The second is, American Honey, by Lady Antebellum! Click on the song name and you can read the lyrics. I must be in a place of nostalgia because both of these songs deal with a remembrance and a longing for the past. They also make me think about the life, values and stability I hope I'm providing to my children through our home and the memories they'll always carry with them.

  

• The Real Housewives of New Jersey and New York on Bravo. I seriously can't get enough of these crazy women. They are completely "Off the Rails" as Bethany from the RHONY would say. 

• My iPhone! I love everything about it. I've had it for about a year and it's still not old yet. My husband says he became an iPhone widow the day I brought it home.

• Homemade Beef Stroganoff. I made it for the first time about two months ago and OMG, it's delicious and I just can't stop making it!

• The weather at this exact moment. As I sit here typing this, the weather outside is getting bad. The tornado sirens just started going off! Better save this and turn computer off. OK…..I'm back, that was a crazy storm that kind of freaked me out. Gotta love storm season in Oklahoma.

Check 1, 2, 3........Is This Mic On?

I have thought about starting a blog for awhile now, but I never got around to it. Until now. So here I am writing my very first blog entry. I don’t have a clue what I’m doing and who knows if anyone will even care one little iota about anything I have to say. But at least it provides me an outlet and will prevent me from running and hiding in my closet when things get crazy. Also I am doing it so that one day my kids can look back and see all the crazy things they put me through.

I have been married for 5 years to my high school boyfriend, Jason, and we have a 2½ year old son together. My son has given me a whole new outlook on life and the day he was born I discovered what pure, unconditional, true love was all about. I can’t even describe the amount of love I have for that child, it’s seriously crazy! I’ve been known to be called a smothering mother and I admit it with no guilt. We are about to start the process of entering parenthood for the second and hopefully last time if all goes as planned (more on what that means in a later post).

I've been told all my life that I talk a lot and have a lot of opinions that I sometimes forget to filter. Actually that last part may not be true, I don’t forget to filter, I just think that its better to tell it like it is and a lot of people don’t like that, they like to be told what they want to hear not what they may need to hear and that’s just not my shtick . So, here it goes, I hope somebody out there enjoys this snapshot into my life!