Can I just start by saying I love my SM girls. Okay they aren't really "my" girls but I do love them. They challenge me in ways they don't even know and usually for the better which is such a good thing for me because my life seems to really be in a slump right now. So for any of you SM gals who might venture in here. Thank You!
Okay here goes...
Day 1-Introduce, recent picture, 15 interesting facts
Quick intro because if I tell too much there won't be anything left for the rest of the 29 days right?! My name is Shari (I always hated that name growing up, now, after 50 years, I've grown kind of fond of it) I have been married for almost 29 years and I am the mother of 6 great kids ranging in age from 7 to 27. All of them boys except one. I have always had the honor and privilege of being able to work at home. The first seven years of our marriage we managed apartments and then once we got into our own place I got my license to run a day care so that is what I do (now on a very small level) to help supplement our family's income.
At this point I am supposed to write 15 interesting facts about myself which I just spent the past half an hour doing and then accidentally deleted. Oh I know there is that little "save now" button that keeps flashing itself but for some reason the past half and hour and 8 very detailed facts I had written thus far are no where to be found!!!
So I guess I will give you the sweet and condensed version of what I had so far...
1. My life is boring. There, I'm getting that fact out there at the very start as a fair warning that you can feel free to stop reading right here, right now. I have a very short attention span and get easily distracted so I'm just saying, don't expect anything I write to really be interesting.
2. I currently live in Washington state but have also lived in Oregon, Utah and Illinois. I love the beauty of where I live but since I have been in my current town for over 20 years now I am really ready for a change. (refer back to fact #1)
3. This is the third time I have written this list and for some strange reason it has been different every single time. (again maybe refer back to fact #1)
4. My new love is watching Bollywood movies on Netflix. I love a good love story no matter how predictable. Throw in vibrant colors, quirky songs, subtitles and a cultural experience and what's not to love. Oh and it doesn't hurt that Hollywood isn't the only location with hot actors steaming up the screen.
5. I don't journal. I scrap. I hope some day all the time and effort will become someones treasure. For now I use it to embarrass my grown children by showing off bad hair pictures.
6. I love being a mom. It's the only thing I ever really wanted to do. I know most moms say that but I also know a few moms that wouldn't be able to say that. I truly love being a mom and if I wasn't so old I would do it a few more times. I love having adult children. Their problems are so much more intense so I worry about them far more than I ever did when they were little or even teenagers but they are good people and I am proud of them in so many way. At the same time I love that I still have a little boy at home. He will still cuddle with me and lay on the couch and read with me. He still wants to give me a kiss and a hug every time I leave the house. They grow out of that way too quickly and if it weren't for him I wouldn't have that so he is my blessing.
7. I am trying to become domestic again. I have gotten away from homemaking so I am making bread again and working on little crafts here and there. I have really enjoyed watching my daughter go through the process of redecorating her room. Her room seems to be the only one in the house that seems to go through any sort of transformations so it has been fun to be involved in that with her. As for my bread making skills...we're working on it.
8. I am the fourth child out of five. I am my father's youngest so I am the baby of the family but my mom and her second husband adopted a child when I was 15 so I am not her youngest. But I am her baby girl so I probably did get a little spoiled because of that.
9. My parents re-married last year, after 35 years of being divorced. Since writing about my parents is another day's post I won't say more about that right now.
10. I am the wife of one and mother of three (soon to be four) Eagle Scouts. I wear my Mother's pins very proudly. My husband and boys have done a lot of hard work over many years to earn their Eagle Scout awards and even if society doesn't think that is much of a big deal any more no one can ever take those experiences my guys have had to get that award away from them. Part of who they are is because of those experiences so in our house we have an Eagle Scout Wall of Fame.
11. I am not afraid to die. I know where I will go after this life. I have no fear in moving on. I have much to learn and accomplish yet so don't get me wrong I'm in no hurry to leave my mortal life here on earth. I'm just saying when my time comes I find comfort in knowing it will not be my end but in fact my new beginning.
12. If I could afford cosmetic surgery I would be on that table in a heart beat. Eye surgery, liposuction, tummy tuck, hair transplant you name it I would do it but since I have more pressing issues to spend my money on I have to will myself to be content with who I am and what I look like.
13. I didn't know I liked to read until I was 34 years old. I never read much more than a magazine here and there. Then my husband came home from a trip to Utah with the then 7 book set of A Work and A Glory and I was hooked. I read the first book in a day and read the other six in less than a month. The story just came alive for me and since it is a factual fiction series that spans the life and experiences of some of my ancestors I just couldn't put them down. I actually went through a grieving process when I finished the series but reading had sparked something in me that I never knew before and I was hooked. I can't read anything too deep, you know, short attention span and all but I still love to read. Right now I am reading the Leven Thumps and Fablehaven. I have never read this type of genre before and I am finding that I am fascinated with the author's creativity. Okay they are kid's books but well, I do have to relate to my kids right?
14. The only pets we've had in the almost 29 years we've been married have been gold fish. How sad is that? My husband and I both grew up having dogs (neither one are too fond of cats). We always had a dog or two at my house and with two older brothers around sometimes we had mice, frogs, baby chicks, and injured birds. But for some reason I have had no desire to own a pet and since my children have never shown enough interest in having a pet to convince me they would actually take care of a pet we don't have a pet. Okay right now we have two gold fish but we didn't take them on by choice. They are left overs from the center pieces from my son's wedding two years ago. He had a small, private wedding one weekend and a reception a week later so I was put in charge of keeping the fish until the reception. Well do you know how easy it is to kill off feeder gold fish? Pretty easy. By time the reception came around we only had three live fish left out of 24 so the mother of the bride went and purchased more and we were stuck with three (now two) fish from the wedding. These last two fish just refuse to die. People tell me to just flush them down the toilet but I am not that heartless. I mean it's not like I will shed any tears if they happen to pass on but I will not kill them on purpose. So they hang out in the downstairs bathroom and usually someone feeds them every day or two or three and we clean out their bowl when we can't seem to see them through the water any more and these dang fish live on. If I wasn't so nice I would give them back to the bride and groom but since they have had two real babies of their own in the past two and a half years I figure they don't need to worry about taking care of a couple of determined fish. Beside my son has let it be know that the minute I bring them over and drop them off they are going down the toilet. Obviously he is a little more heartless than his mom.
15. Fact number 15 (really it is #38 since I have done this one and a half times before) so it should be a really good one I suppose but since my brain is fried, the kids will be home any minute and you are probably bored stiff with what I have written already I will just say this...my life is boring. You were warned.
So I guess I will give you the sweet and condensed version of what I had so far...
1. My life is boring. There, I'm getting that fact out there at the very start as a fair warning that you can feel free to stop reading right here, right now. I have a very short attention span and get easily distracted so I'm just saying, don't expect anything I write to really be interesting.
2. I currently live in Washington state but have also lived in Oregon, Utah and Illinois. I love the beauty of where I live but since I have been in my current town for over 20 years now I am really ready for a change. (refer back to fact #1)
3. This is the third time I have written this list and for some strange reason it has been different every single time. (again maybe refer back to fact #1)
4. My new love is watching Bollywood movies on Netflix. I love a good love story no matter how predictable. Throw in vibrant colors, quirky songs, subtitles and a cultural experience and what's not to love. Oh and it doesn't hurt that Hollywood isn't the only location with hot actors steaming up the screen.
5. I don't journal. I scrap. I hope some day all the time and effort will become someones treasure. For now I use it to embarrass my grown children by showing off bad hair pictures.
6. I love being a mom. It's the only thing I ever really wanted to do. I know most moms say that but I also know a few moms that wouldn't be able to say that. I truly love being a mom and if I wasn't so old I would do it a few more times. I love having adult children. Their problems are so much more intense so I worry about them far more than I ever did when they were little or even teenagers but they are good people and I am proud of them in so many way. At the same time I love that I still have a little boy at home. He will still cuddle with me and lay on the couch and read with me. He still wants to give me a kiss and a hug every time I leave the house. They grow out of that way too quickly and if it weren't for him I wouldn't have that so he is my blessing.
7. I am trying to become domestic again. I have gotten away from homemaking so I am making bread again and working on little crafts here and there. I have really enjoyed watching my daughter go through the process of redecorating her room. Her room seems to be the only one in the house that seems to go through any sort of transformations so it has been fun to be involved in that with her. As for my bread making skills...we're working on it.
8. I am the fourth child out of five. I am my father's youngest so I am the baby of the family but my mom and her second husband adopted a child when I was 15 so I am not her youngest. But I am her baby girl so I probably did get a little spoiled because of that.
9. My parents re-married last year, after 35 years of being divorced. Since writing about my parents is another day's post I won't say more about that right now.
10. I am the wife of one and mother of three (soon to be four) Eagle Scouts. I wear my Mother's pins very proudly. My husband and boys have done a lot of hard work over many years to earn their Eagle Scout awards and even if society doesn't think that is much of a big deal any more no one can ever take those experiences my guys have had to get that award away from them. Part of who they are is because of those experiences so in our house we have an Eagle Scout Wall of Fame.
11. I am not afraid to die. I know where I will go after this life. I have no fear in moving on. I have much to learn and accomplish yet so don't get me wrong I'm in no hurry to leave my mortal life here on earth. I'm just saying when my time comes I find comfort in knowing it will not be my end but in fact my new beginning.
12. If I could afford cosmetic surgery I would be on that table in a heart beat. Eye surgery, liposuction, tummy tuck, hair transplant you name it I would do it but since I have more pressing issues to spend my money on I have to will myself to be content with who I am and what I look like.
13. I didn't know I liked to read until I was 34 years old. I never read much more than a magazine here and there. Then my husband came home from a trip to Utah with the then 7 book set of A Work and A Glory and I was hooked. I read the first book in a day and read the other six in less than a month. The story just came alive for me and since it is a factual fiction series that spans the life and experiences of some of my ancestors I just couldn't put them down. I actually went through a grieving process when I finished the series but reading had sparked something in me that I never knew before and I was hooked. I can't read anything too deep, you know, short attention span and all but I still love to read. Right now I am reading the Leven Thumps and Fablehaven. I have never read this type of genre before and I am finding that I am fascinated with the author's creativity. Okay they are kid's books but well, I do have to relate to my kids right?
14. The only pets we've had in the almost 29 years we've been married have been gold fish. How sad is that? My husband and I both grew up having dogs (neither one are too fond of cats). We always had a dog or two at my house and with two older brothers around sometimes we had mice, frogs, baby chicks, and injured birds. But for some reason I have had no desire to own a pet and since my children have never shown enough interest in having a pet to convince me they would actually take care of a pet we don't have a pet. Okay right now we have two gold fish but we didn't take them on by choice. They are left overs from the center pieces from my son's wedding two years ago. He had a small, private wedding one weekend and a reception a week later so I was put in charge of keeping the fish until the reception. Well do you know how easy it is to kill off feeder gold fish? Pretty easy. By time the reception came around we only had three live fish left out of 24 so the mother of the bride went and purchased more and we were stuck with three (now two) fish from the wedding. These last two fish just refuse to die. People tell me to just flush them down the toilet but I am not that heartless. I mean it's not like I will shed any tears if they happen to pass on but I will not kill them on purpose. So they hang out in the downstairs bathroom and usually someone feeds them every day or two or three and we clean out their bowl when we can't seem to see them through the water any more and these dang fish live on. If I wasn't so nice I would give them back to the bride and groom but since they have had two real babies of their own in the past two and a half years I figure they don't need to worry about taking care of a couple of determined fish. Beside my son has let it be know that the minute I bring them over and drop them off they are going down the toilet. Obviously he is a little more heartless than his mom.
15. Fact number 15 (really it is #38 since I have done this one and a half times before) so it should be a really good one I suppose but since my brain is fried, the kids will be home any minute and you are probably bored stiff with what I have written already I will just say this...my life is boring. You were warned.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the fish post. :)
ReplyDeleteI love Bollywood too! and you're life is not boring at all. More than that, you're very witty so anything that might be boring is made great by your hysterical writings!
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