20 things about me….

20.  I am 33 years old.

19. I have 4 kids ranging in ages between 9 and 1 years.

18. I’m married though we are going through some rocky times in our relationship right now.

17. I have recently lost over 30 pounds and am finally back to my pre-pregnancy weight!

16. I LOVE to write, draw and read!

15. I SUCK at math…and I never made it beyond geometry in high school…and basic math in college (took pulling some strings to substitute pre-req classes!)

14. My college degree is in Political Science…but I wish I had majored in art.

13. I played the piano for 14 years

12. I recently started running…and I am quickly becoming addicted to it!

11. I am running in my first 5k in March!

10. My  family is in the process of going green.

9.  I am scared of the dark!

8. I used to ride and show horses.  I did “eventing” which is a combination of dressage, cross country jumping, and stadium jumping.

7. My horses’ name was “Dillon” after Bob Dylan. I miss him a lot.

6.  I am serving on the “agape team” for an Emmaus walk in February…I am really excited!!

5. I breastfed 3 out of my 4 children.

4. I cloth diaper my babies.

3. I have a weird case of “phone anxiety”….where I don’t like to talk on the phone unless I really know you…in which case I then get a bad case of “I can’t shut the hell up”.

2. I dislike people that pull out in front of you and proceed to drive 15 miles an hour alongside another car going 12 miles an hour…so that I may not pass either of them and must remain behind them while feeling my fuse start to fizzle.  LOL! Otherwise, I am a very cautious and “grandma-ish” driver.

1. I LOVE the outdoors…the mountains are my favorite place.  My husband and I were married on top of a mountain in Colorado (Yeah for Yeggae Peak!) which is where I hope to live someday!!  I love hiking and I have dabbled in rock climbing in my pre-kiddo days.

And so it is….

It’s so nostalgic….that first post in your blog that is.  I have noticed everyone always puts some kind of ‘welcome’ message.  “Welcome to my blog!”.  I am not sure that I am actually welcoming anyone….because at this moment no one knows about it.  LOL!  So I am welcoming me!  I am sure this is a pretty narcissitic action, but I am trying to be real here.  Which brings me to the purpose of starting this blog.  I have a blog for my business.  I have a blog for parenting.  I even have a photo blog. But somewhere along the line in all of those lines, I feel the need to watch what I say.  I’m not sure why.  I want a place where I can write 100% out in the open….with 100% honesty……and not worry about it having an effect on my business or my children/family.  So here we go!  I have delayed starting this blog because I didn’t want to use blogger, and I couldn’t come up with the right name.  Since I use wordpress for my business blog, I was over the moon to realize I could use it for a personal blog too.  I didn’t plan on signing up for it though…until I had chosen the appropriate blog name.  But I found myself on the registration page…and when I got to the entry field for the blog name…I thought to myself…”what best describes ME in a real and candid way?”.  So I typed “artist” and “mom”.  I was totally positive it would be taken, but it was worth a shot.  It wasn’t taken.  And so it is.

I am an artist.  And I am a mom.  Both of which pretty much dictate my day to day life.  In between those two roles, I am also a wife, daughter, sister, friend, dog owner, runner, christian, writer, and occasionally an aspiring chef-ette.  Yes, I love to cook.  I just don’t get the proper time to study recipes and carry them out.  So I mostly just study and collect them.  I love to read recipes though.  And one day, when I am trying to cope with ‘empty nest syndrome’, I will have a very healthy collection of recipes to try out.

Anyway, I digress.  I am hereby stating that my intention in starting this blog has one solid purpose that boldly defines many smaller reasons.  That one solid purpose….is to be totally upfront and honest about my life.  I will not hold back in any way.  This is my blog. About my life.  And my feelings.  No one else owns any of those, except me.  And so it is….

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