Dramamine…

Life is most definitely NOT like a box of chocolates!!!! Even though you never know what you’re going to get you can at least read the back of the box, follow the map to get to what you want and in the end its always something sweet! That is NOT life… there is no instructions to follow and we usually don’t get what we want and most of the time it’s not sweet! 

I have found that the sweet things in life usually land in our path unexpectedly! A Baby, a Puppy, a Husband… The lottery!

The only thing I do know about life is this… the Drama that comes along my path so frequently is usually a repercussion of a choice I have made along the way! So today I choose a new path… it is the Drama Free Path! This is my new mission in life…

Here’s the scary part… I could write a book about myself and my teammates and it would be so drama filled and intriguing even Nicholas Sparks couldn’t make this $h!t up. The problem is that if I were to tell my drama filled life story I would most certainly have to include a certain special player on My Team and she would kill me… I will call her Duchess .

So as I post and blog away for the next year, remember the name Duchess! She will definitely be in many a blog story because she is usually at the center of my world and about 99% of the time it is all her fault! Tehehehehehe… well maybe not, but she would take the blame for me if I asked her to! Wouldn’t you Dutch???

Sincerely,

The Newly Drama Free Princess

Brrrrrrr....

Here’s my theory on weather people!
First of all let me start by saying it is 10 degrees here in Tulsa Oklahoma! That is colder than Alaska right now! Brrrrrr

So on to my theory… I grew up all over Gods Planet. I have lived in California, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kansas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Germany, and England! I have traveled so many more places than I’ve lived and still my theory remains the same.

I would choose a tornado over a earth quake any day of the week. I think Hot rules over cold! Sunshine is a necessity and overcast sucks!

Let me explain! So growing up in the middle of this Grand Land I call home, I have seen with my own eyes a tornado. Tornados are horrible and they wreak havoc on whatever they touch but… you can run from then! Ok, no you can’t like put on your tennis shoes and out run a tornado and I don’t even recommend getting in your car and trying to get away… But you can go get in a storm cellar or under a overpass or in a ditch  or in your bathtub for that matter and survive. Earthquakes on the other hand, you cannot get away from unless you just don’t live where they tend to happen! All though most of you know I was the fool on channel 6 this fall saying I felt the earthquake that happened in Oklahoma… Earthquakes also come without warning!! Tornadoes are preceded by a storm, a storm warning and if you are just ignorant to your surroundings and didn’t catch any of those warnings you will hear a distinct sign of a freight train and then you have about 2.4 seconds to hit the bathtub… RUN! SO I choose to live where tornadoes reside and not earthquakes!

Hot vs. Cold! Here’s the deal people! It’s very black and white for me! Being freezing cold HURTS!! Being hot in the summer does not hurt… it may be uncomfortable and you may sweat, but it doesn’t hurt to be hot… at least not when we are talking weather related… Also it is very simple to cool off… stand in front of a fan and even if you are sweating your but off you will immediately feel cooler! Cold on the other hand takes longer to feel better… if you are painfully cold and you stand in front of a fire, you are still cold. If you are freezing and you stand in a hot shower it hurts until your skin warms up! Cold is painful… bottom line! So I choose to live where about 9 months out of the year it is comfortable and not cold!

I won’t dig into the sun vs. cloud because it is self explanatory… Everyone is happier in the sunshine I am convinced of that! If not just look around you at people when its nasty and cold and rainy outside… people are grumpy and mean! So I will continue to get my sunshine therapy about once a month during the winter ( tan in a tanning bed ) and I promise you I will smile more when the temp in Oklahoma rises above 15…

Signed,
Freezing Freaking Cold

Meet The Team...

I will make a lame attempt to introduce you to the team... As I Blog over the next year you will hear about people in my life that are a part of My Team! They have all been warned... at some point they know that they will all fall victim to my blogging and I want to go ahead and apologize for anything I might say wrong and to anyone I might offend along the way. I love you all... So sorry! Tehehehe

Remember this: You are my angels, and you give me wings when I forget how to fly above it all ;-)

My Hubby - We have been together for a little over 9 years and married for almost 8. He makes me laugh and that is what makes our relationship so unique. He promised me on one of our first "serious dating talks" that if I grew old with him that the only thing he could promise me was that when we were old and wrinkled, sitting on the front porch, he would be making me laugh out loud...

Wenie - My teenager... We have a amazing relationship. She is one of my best friends and yet somehow I have also maintained the parent factor.... She admits she is scared to death of me and also in the same breath she will ask her friends why they don't talk to their Moms about stuff like she can talk to me... I don't know how I did it so don't ask for parent advise because I am just like you... God forgot to mail the instruction manual when I had her at the ripe old age of 20, so I make mistakes too! She is way more of an athlete than I ever was, she is smart as a whip in math ( her dad and I were both English Majors) so if it weren't for the fact that she looks EXACTLY like the two of us I would wonder where she came from... but she is all mine and I am bananas about her!

Bubby - My wild man... He is the first boy born on my side of the family in 5 generations! Yes 5... we have a saying in my family... "The men in our lives are the ones that we chose to bring in and the ones we choose to get rid of" that was true for me as well UNITL Bubby! He is 7 years younger than Wenie and when God brought him into my life I knew for a fact that He had a sense of humor. You will hear many a story about Bub over the next year for sure because he puts the "interesting" factor in our lives...

RiRi - My add on daughter. She came into my life when she was in the first grade and at the ripe old age of 7 years old. She was the first to come up with the grand idea that we could be a "family" and she was extremely excited about the thought of a new sister and she immediately started the other two calling us Mom and Dad... A little awkward when you are just dating but looking back, she was the smart one that saw our future together!!! (speaking of future I will blog about my fortune teller one day and how she predicted all of this!!!) She is precious and I am blessed to have such a sweet additional daughter.

The Con Man - This young man was in Pre-K when I met my hubby and he challenged me to my core. Remember... No boys in my family! EVER!!!! So I didn't know what or how to be in his world and believe me it was his world we were all just visitors on the Con Man Planet... I remember calling his Mom and asking how in the world I was suppose to ever get socks white again! I needed to know if she had a magic trick... She said soak them in bleach water in the sink over night,wash them a couple times and just buy new ones often. I think Wenie was still wearing socks she had owned since she was two! Everything from dirty socks to disastrous playrooms and every toy purchased-- immediately broken or taken apart, was so very new to me I was lost. I must say that seeing him now gives me hope for Bubby... Con Man has turned into a amazing, smart, well groomed and very well mannered young man who the girls swoon over in the big 8th grade! He is also a wonderful addition to my life...

The Ponies!!

Gracie - a yellow lab that Santa brought to our kids when she was 8 weeks old with a big red bow around her neck on a snowy Christmas morning 8 years ago. There were even sleigh tracks in the snow from where Santa had stopped and dropped her off... She thinks she is a Cat... she sleeps about 20 out of 24 hours out of a day. She almost died at one year old when she got hit by a car and since then and thousands of dollars later she is sweet, slow and kind of "Special"...
Miken - a black lab who is about 2 years old and thinks he is Wenie's boyfriend. He is very obedient and a amazing (whisper) dog! He also ate 22 pairs of my shoes before he became this amazing family member! I wasn't sure if I would make it through parent-poniehood back then... :-/

SaraLee - She is the newest foster-pony in the family. She showed up on my door and everyone blames everyone else for her miraculously being fed and being let into the house. She has a lot to learn because she has NO manners at this point, but eventually she will figure out how things work around here. She is sworn to my lil' cousin, and even if she cant take her for another year I will gladly give her to her real PonyMom whenever she is ready for the responsibility.

I will tell you more about other Team Members later but these are the ones that are Family and usually start the majority of the thoughts and stories that pulse through my brain.

These are the parts of my team that mean the most to me! They are my blessing and the reason I want to get up everyday and be a better Mom, Wife, Pony Caretaker and Human...

Signed,

A very blessed girl...