The why?

Let me start off with I’ve always been a planner, so sharing things and trying to get the most out of life is part of my nature. So when I was in college specifically in 2010-12 I started seeing that there were people that were making blogging. It was a way for them to do something they enjoyed. Some of them it was fashion, some of them was cooking and they would make a little bit of extra money on the side. I personally love DIY projects on blogs so I kept thinking to myself why can’t I do this and the truth was there was nothing stopping me. As is the case with so many things we have these dreams and aspirations; you know a lot of us it is losing weight. But, if I sit on the couch every day and eat bad food I’m not going to lose weight that was what stopped me on my blogging journey before it truly began.

History not Mystery

This was the case with me starting a blog for the past 7 years or so. I’d get all geared up and excited and freeze when it came to actually writing anything. Those worries about, Will anyone read it? Will people make fun of me? Will I sound like a complete and utter moron? And so many more things when through my head so I’d never actually post. I started one for when I had my son and started one when I was trying to lose the baby/happy marriage weight I had gained. I even had one class we were required to do blog posts so that other people in our group could read it for a class. I was in at College seriously that teacher was more tech-savvy than I will ever be. I loved making a blog for class I enjoyed writing and sharing but I never did anything more with it once that class was over. It didn’t get touched and I have a really fascinating article about Benjamin Franklin, even though I really did not like reading about him. But that’s a story for another time.

One of the blogs I had started was me bracing for the fact that when we got married we were told not to expect any girls. This was because there hadn’t been a Smith girl in several generations. So, I was openly blogging about having a boy and the terrible case I had of gender envy since the other 6 women I know where all expecting girls. That was when I was pregnant with my son and if you’ve read any of my other posts you know that after my son was born I did happen to have a girl and then once again had another girl.

Back at it

So back to why this thing was started, I have three beautiful babies. I don’t get to go out and do stuff as much as I used to but to be honest I’d rather a lot of the time to stay in and spend time with them. I really enjoy trying to spend part of my day living the world through their eyes. It’s fascinating to see things new for the first time. My kids love to make birthday cards with me they think it is awesome so I will cut them out a birthday card for them to color or write on. They make some of the most obscure but beautiful cards.

I’m blogging to share my world, my experiences, my kids. I’ll be sharing fun projects for you to do with kids and fun things for you to do. I’m a little bit kooky when I was a kid at least one of my friends used to compare me to Wednesday Addams. I was really pale I had nearly jet black hair , hardly went outside to play as I was much happier crawling into a tree and reading a book. I’ve always had kind of a macabre sense of humor. I was totally the scary movie girl one of my nicknames was the scream Queen because I had seen almost everything in the scary movie section at Blockbuster Video.

What to expect

So is really just my way of sharing these things that I want to put out there in the world. From cute little packaging for the holidays or a quick and easy birthday card. I love to make things that you can do with almost no extra stuff other than what you have on hand. Sometime you may need to dip your kids craft stash. I really hope you enjoy this journey with me as much as I’m going to enjoy taking you on this journey.