Bittersweet Day

So, it is mid-morning and all is quiet.  The girls are at school and their dad is picking them up today.  Love is working.  There is nothing going on in this house which is a stark contrast to the usual hustle and bustle that fills up my days... heck even the dog is no where to be seen and the fish are hiding!  The only sound is the soft flow of the water in the fish tank and the whirl of the ceiling fan.  What am I to do with all this quiet time?

Well, there is some cleaning to be done, which sounds like no fun at all!  But being that I am one of those overachieving super mom types I will do it anyway.  May have to put on some tunes to listen to cause this quiet is kinda eerie.

And there is always the fifty million project floating around in my head that I would like to get accomplished.  First on that agenda is making a cover for my Nook so it doesn't get scratched up when I toss it in my purse (or my ten ton suitcase as Love calls it, but that is a post for another day!)  I love my Nook, which is the Barnes&Noble e-reader, and it goes with me everywhere.  One never knows when they may have a few moments to spare to catch up on some reading.  I have over 100 books downloaded on it and never know what I am in the mood to read so one little Nook is so much easier to carry than 100 different books.  Plus there are magazines on it, a few apps, and it is wi-fi capable so I have Internet too!  But the cover I had on has been beat up pretty good so it needs a new one.

Then there is a whole list of "stuff" my daughters have asked me to make and a tiger who needs some surgery on his arm. Poor tiger is currently lying on the couch with a sock bandage covering the wound and a belt being used as a proper sling and swathe!  (One of the cute things my 9 year old did and due to her momma's career in EMS the tiger was appropriately put in triage and treated.)

Dinner needs to be figured out... thinking something easy since it will just be Love and me.

Zoe, the guinea pig, needs her cage cleaned.

I need another cup of coffee.

Laundry is also calling my name...

So I do believe I have plenty to keep me occupied but it just isn't the same without the typical noise that I deal with when doing these everyday things.  That is where the bittersweet part comes in.  I enjoy my quiet time.  Between the demands of my job and the house and the kids, there is very little ME time.  Yet, with an entire day of me time ahead I am saddened at the lack of chaos and people...

Here is to everyone having a good "hump day" Wednesday. 

P.S.  I will put up directions for the Nook case when I get it done!!!!

A Sweet Little Hello

Life is sweet.  It has taken a long time and a few rough life experience to be able to say that but it is so true. 

Now, I may be new to this blogging thing but I am no stranger to writing, reading or speaking my mind and blogging seemed like the perfect combination of the three.  I by no means think I will change the world with this blog but I can say that I hope that I touch a few lives here and there.  This blog is an outlet for me and may end up being a place where someone can identify with me.  This first blog will be an intro to who I am, what I am about and what you may read in the future.

First, a little about me and where I have been.  I was born in Texas (hook 'em horns!) and let me say that us Texans do in fact consider ourselves to be Southern.  However, my Texas roots were short lived and I spent my childhood and teenage years growing up on the hot sands of New Mexico.  I did get away for a year when I went to live with my biological father in South Carolina but swiftly returned due to a step-mom who did not care for me much.  I graduated at 16 with honors and went straight to college on a full academic scholarship.  I did two years there as an English major with intentions on going to law school.  Then a trip back to SC for my father's fourth or fifth wedding (I stopped counting step-moms after the third, whom I actually kinda liked) changed my life.  I moved to SC to be closer to my father (who left when I was five) only to have new step-mom decide she didn't like me.  So there I was in a strange state with no one as my mom, step-dad, brother and sister moved to CA a year before I moved to SC. 

Now to be brief and catch you up quick- ran into an old friend from when I lived in SC in high school, got pregnant and stuck.  Now please don't take the wrong, I am not implying I got stuck with a kid but I did get stuck in this town.  Got married cause we had a kid even though we could not go more than a day without fighting.  I am a stay-at-home type girl and he was a go out clubbing type guy.  (Let me say that when I met him I had no idea that clubbing was not beating people with a heavy object but rather was going to bars and getting wasted... who knew...)  So we split, got back together, had kiddo number two, we split again, I forgave him, got back together, split three more times before the last split which I am happy to say finally ended in a divorce after 12 years together.  Please understand that I am not endorsing divorce.  It was a rough process but was needed for me and my girls to be healthy, happy people.

So now here we are.  I am on the brink of turning 31 (yes I did admit that) with two beautiful daughters ages 11 1/2 (that half is important I am told) and 9.  I have found a wonderful career as an EMT and spend my work days in the back of an ambulance doing my best for every person that ends up on my stretcher.  While working on the boo boo box I was partnered with the most amazing man who is now the love of my life.  We have been together over a year and we NEVER fight.  (Never put in caps on purpose because it is the truth.)  Love is a one of a kind man and I know I am blessed to be the recipient of his love and devotion.  He is good to me, great with my girls and the girls adore him.

So after all that I can honestly say that life is sweet.