I am not a writer by any means, and will probably find myself using a Thesaurus and Dictionary many time throughout this new chapter in my life. I have been searching for my calling, something besides the normal draws of my daily life to keep me excited and feeling like my own person. I hope to learn a lot. A lot about being a mom, a wife, a person, a friend, and a business woman. Please if I talk about you in a negative way, take it as a compliment that I am even mentioning you! Ha ha....I'll try to be nice! I don't even know how this whole blog thing works, and who will be able to see this, or how people will find it. But the mystery of it all is pretty exciting. Where to begin.......
I grew up in Alaska where I had an amazing childhood of exploring, hiking, fishing, cooking/baking, schooling, skiing/snowboarding, and using my imagination. I have two lovely sisters and two even more lovely, divorced parents. After a year and a half of college I moved to Maui to escape reality and delve (sp?) into my sabbatical at Cosmetology school. I ended up loving the business of making my own schedule, making people more beautiful, having a great income, and talking shit! I spent six years in Maui over all. In that time I got married to the man of my dreams, and gave birth to the most beautiful blue eyed boy. When he was two, we decided we wanted to lay down some roots and HI was not the place to do it. Vermont? Seattle? Alaska? Oh the options....because of a job opportunity we chose Vermont, or in a way, Vermont chose us. I now live in Northern Vermont where I own a nice 1920 little starter home that I wish was huge and perfect! I am the mother of two crazy boys, ages 2 and 5. (A girl one day you ask? Maybe!) I own a business that could be a whole blog on its own...wow! I have been married for five and a half years and they have been wonderful and terrible. (Part of the reason for the blog.) My husband works at a local resort as a doorman as that is what works with our ideal of no childcare, and owning a business. He enjoys it, and is way overqualified for his work, but at the end of the day, it works!
Right now, my kids are kneeling on the kids table screaming and banging at the dog that is basically doing the same thing from the opposite side of the window. She (the dog) has single handedly this holiday season, chewed through two sets of Christmas lights, a set of red beads for the tree, two extension cords, four shoes, many toys, barfed on the couch, peed and pooped in the playroom and put a hole in the screen which she is jumping on right NOW! My sister says we should just get rid of them, I am sure she is right, yet it isn't going to happen. We were smart enough to "get a friend" for our other dog two months ago. Yeah, real smart.
On another note. I have just punched down two loaves of bread by hand, which I said I wasn't going to make in the first place because my Kitchen-Aid decided to break two days before Christmas. Lovely. I did however, make the bread. I also made "Everything but the kitchen sink" soup for dinner. I am sure my kids will say they "Hate it!" And won't eat a bite. Classic. Earlier today I was saying how I feel terrible throwing out all the food I make my kids everyday that they don't ever eat. I still haven't figured out how to deal with that. I find myself giving other people (mostly at work) really good advice on how to get their kids to eat, because I have tried everything and it never works for me. Well, almost everything. I think it was my mom, or maybe one of my sisters that just said, "stop feeding them." Ha ha, sounds terrible, but I know they won't starve. Maybe I'll start that tonight!
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