7 posts tagged “life”

What are your rituals or traditions for starting off a new year?  

The most important ritual is the clean house thing. I have to have a marginally clean house at the beginning of the new year. There is an old wives tale that whatever you're doing at the stroke of midnight is what your year will look like, I was working on the newsletter for the twins club. I hope that this is not how I'm going to spend my year, busy on the computer. That would be terrible. Especially since I want to spend less time on the computer and more time playing with my kids and reading and writing. I am going to have a friend from book club sit with me for the entire day one day soon and she is going to teach me how to knit. How fun will that be?! But I digress.

So yeh, cleaning the house or already clean house. Close enough today, so to speak.

Who is ringing in the New Year with you?  Who do you wish could be with you, but isn't there?

At home with the most important people in my life, the husb and the kidlets. ASLEEP!

So I was at Target the other day and I was looking pj's for the MIL. While I was looking my kids were stroller-free and hanging around close to me but not hanging ON me. I mean, they are 3 they have minds of their own. I was ready to leave that department and I made a quick call for my kiddos, "Jakey, Katy, let's go." Not loud since I knew my kids were within earshot of me. They're curious but they still have SOME fear in them. Well apparently the 20something girl in the next aisle didn't realize I was within earshot as she muttered to her dirty, stupid haircut, skinny pants wearing boyfriend, "if you can't handle one kid why did you have another!" My kids hands were already in my hands. I walked over to her, with them in my hands and said, "You know, I would have loved to have had them one at a time but it seems that it wasn't an option. They're twins!" and she looked at me and said, "Oh, sorry."

You know dumb girl, I'm not sorry. Why do they rude people always find me. Maybe I find them. Remind me to blog about the lady who told me my "charges" were cute and tried to explain to me how hard it is when the kids are actually yours...

What is your daily commute like?  What is the weirdest thing you've seen on that commute? 
Submitted by E. 

My daily commute requires me to come upstairs from downstairs. It's about oh I would say 5 - 10 seconds. It's rough!

Not really.

I use to drive from D-Ville to Hayward everyday. It was only 14 miles away yet it took me anywhere from 30 - 45 minutes to get there. Imagine that. I would take Crow Canyon all the way to Castro Valley then the back roads to make it to South Hayward. It wasn't that bad because I left my house at 6am so the streets were pretty empty.

Living inthe Bay Area, you see everything on the streets. I have seen people shaving, reading the paper or a book, brushing their teeth, putting on make up, curling their hair, etc. These people are crazy.

List five reasons (at least) why you are awesome.
Submitted by goobers18.

Why I'm awesome... That's kinda weird since I don't think that I am awesome. But I have done some awesome things.

1. Abandoned my career and became a stay at home mom.

2. Left San Antonio and moved to California for love.

3. I helped a girl deliver her baby.

4. I overcame great odds and became the person I am today.

5. I love greatly.

If you could get everyone in the world to change their behavior in one way, what would you have them do differently?
Submitted by Ross.

This is probably something that most people will say... I just want people to be nice and courteous to one another. Is that so much to ask?

What experience or moment in your life have you learned the most from? 
Submitted by AngieK. 

Becoming a mother is the single moment I have learned the most from. First, I have learned patience. I'm still learning but I have become a lot more patient since. I learned that there is a love so deep in my heart that I am willing to kill for them. I am not softer because I became a mother (people often say that you become softer) I am harder because I have never loved two people more to be willing to move mountains for.