but what about meeeee?

I am a 35 year old wife and mother of three.  I love God first and foremost because He first loved me.  I thrive on Grace alone.  My husband is wonderful and handsome.  He plays the drums and dresses like a hot tamale from the J.Crew catalog. Don’t hate me. He’s the most amazing man in the world. He lets me cry on his shoulder when I feel fat and I think that the house needs to be reorganized. He loves our children who are 6, 4 1/2 and newborn. He hangs shelves, paints, puts up crown molding and lays carpet like it’s his job (it’s not). He also buys me pregnancy tests and tampons. He lets me jam Jennifer Lopez, but hates my taste in music. The only thing we can agree on is our Christian music. He let me turn in our Honda Odyssey after only having it for one year for an Acura MDX because I hated looking like every other mom in the world. He loves the Lord and sees that our family seeks Him first. He plays basketball every morning at 6 am so that he never has to leave when the family is home together. As you can see, I’m blessed and don’t deserve him.

My son Gabriel is six and entering the First Grade. Our life with him is never dull. He cracks us up on the regular and is the most stubborn person I’ve met. Hopefully that will serve him well as he gets older because currently…he spends a lot of the time sitting on the step or asking us for forgiveness. Sometimes we lay hands on him. You think I’m kidding? He has a super soft heart and cries when we talk about Jesus on the Cross, children without food or toys and people that are very sick. His favorite song is Alicia Keys “No one”. He rocks that with his guitar, too.

Our daughter Camryn is almost five and loves to dress up. Seriously, that’s the first thing I can think of when I think about her. She has this little/tall body with huge hair. She thinks everything is beautiful and gorgeous or gross and disgusting. She likes to wear my Chanel perfume and pink sparkly lip gloss. She also whines a lot. Which makes her spend a certain amount of time on the step next to her brother. We ask her to give toys to the children that are needy and her reply is “can’t they just come over and play?” She also falls at least twice a day.

I wouldn’t have my life any different, but it sure would be nice if my son ate vegetables and my daughter sat still at the table.

Me? Well, I love playing track #6 on John Mayer’s “Continuum” album over and over. What else about me? I like taking my kids to the pool. I work from home as a Recruiter for a large Engineering, Architectural and Planning firm. I’m WAY too forgiving. I am a very good friend because I’ll do anything for you. That means you are lucky if you’re one of them I have a lot of “issues”. I hate legalism and conformity. I hate rules. I’m a good girl, though. I just think we all would get a long more if we love as Christ loved. I had my nose pierced once. I had a friend tell me I wasn’t “edgy” enough to have it. So, I started incorporating more swear words into my vocabulary and that ended up backfiring on me. So, the nose ring is out. Ha! I make most of the money in our household. So, maybe that’s why I do work. But I love it. I wouldn’t change it. My work comes very easy for me and I truly, truly love it.  I work while my kids attend school.  When Little Mamma doesn’t have preschool she helps me around the house and I read her “Pinkalicious” 300 times and put together this god awful100 piece Disney Princess puzzle.  I have a very balanced life.  But I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have my outlet of my home office to be a professional and be somewhat normal. I am jealous of Moms that are perfectly content finger painting all day long.  I am not just saying that, I’m truly jealous of your dedication   After picture three, I’m like “let’s go to Target, Mommy needs a latte”. I think that gold high heels and camouflage are perfectly acceptable together, and should be encouraged. I love earrings bigger than my face. I love a good spray tan. Now that I think of it, I was way cooler with my nose ring Decorating is a huge hobby of mine. Don’t mind the constant rearranging of my furniture, it’s like therapy for me.  I don’t enjoy working out, but I try to do it. I have a 170 lb dog that is getting old and seems to be costing us several thousand dollars a year. I love reading books. Most of the time, it’s a devotional because of my self-diagnosis with A.D.D., I cannot finish reading books. I did manage to watch the whole Batman 3 movie which was a feat in itself. I can’t even listen to a whole CD because I am too tightly wound. I can’t play mini-golf because it’s too slow paced. I want to punch people for not moving fast enough. Now, I sound like a psycho. Oh, and I’m a bad writer. And bad with punctuation and such, but you already knew that. I am, however; a really, really, really, really, good talker. Enough about me. Enjoy my blog!