I'm not that girl....

So, I can be a little dismissive and intolerant about ridiculous stuff. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of really great stuff to be intolerant of. Such as enormous environmental oil spills, ongoing wars, crimes against humanity. And then there's the next tier of issues like your run-of-the-mill misogyny, racism, ethnocentrism, religionism (I'm sure that's a word) and so on and so forth.

But I get real caught up in issues nowhere near as noble as these. Once, I judged stay-at-home moms. I thought, "You crazy, uneducated, unsociable creatures! Like it's so hard to get out and get your hair done! Go get a manicure! Why do you always wear the same clothes everyday! Ugh."

And here we are. My intolerance slipping out the window as I eat my words...or rather thoughts. I would have never actually said these things to a SAHM!! But I always thought them.

I got my hair done for the first time in over a year last weekend. We're getting ready for some family pictures in the next weeks and I'm thinking, "Well, I probably shouldn't wear my cargos and wife-beater in the photo...what do people wear when they go out now-a-days??"

I feel guilty having dinner with my friends a few times A YEAR!!!

I'm a wreck.

I'm a SAHM.

I even hate the acronym.

I am committed to change. My husband is going to hate it.....

So I'm a Little Late to the Party...

This is pretty cool. Mix of top songs 0f 2009.

Things That Are (Recently) Awesome

1.) Our new house. It's a long way from feeling like "ours," but it's just soooo great even how it is right now. Boxes and clutter and filthy carpets included.

2.) The Washington Pope's visit and help. We moved and had fun. That seems illogical, but it's true.

3.) Parker sleeping through the night. Really? All we needed to do was spend a few $100,000 and he would start sleeping through the night?!? Why didn't we think of this sooner?

4.) Pope's Bath Tub

5.) Eliana's bookmark projects. I'll have bookmarks for years. And her saying, "That's a good idea." So cute. Everything is a good idea right now.

6.) Grandma Barbie coming home from the hospital.

7.) Time with our favorite nephew, Cole, and his parents. We've been so busy and we've missed them.

8.) Mom's successful eye surgery!! She can see!!

9.) Me and my not dying in my car while speeding down the highway when the ball joint decided to separate from my front passenger wheel. It happened in my driveway, instead. And that is awesome.



(Pictures of any and all of this coming soon. I have no idea which box holds the camera.)