Mind Right Monday

Today I'm linking up with Dani over at OkDani.com. Every week I always think I'm going to join her and then I never do :( I'm so excited that I'm finally in on it!

Goals for this week:

- Clean the guest bedroom from top to bottom. I never got to do the cleaning that I would have liked to because our move was kind of pieced together. Since this room has the least amount of items in it I think it will be easier to start here.

- Walk 1 mile in 18 minutes or less. My current record is 18 minutes 59 seconds. The longest its ever taken me to walk one mile while pushing a stroller is 31 minutes 17 seconds and that was just last week- I'm on a get fit mission!

- Read at least 2 pages in my current book. Even if this means I have to hide in the bathroom while my husband and son tough it out. I kid! It's not that bad. But I would rather read blogs or browse pinterest/facebook. I've had this book for a week now and I'm on page 30.

- Start the post of my son's first birthday recap. I have no idea why in Sam hell it's taking me so long!

- Participate in 'Mind Right Mondays' again.

- Apply for just one job.

I'm grateful for:

- Heat. As of writing this (Wed 11/28 @ 9:30 pm) it's 34 degrees outside. Tonight's low it supposed to be 28. Oy!

- My son. He really does give me joy. Earlier today he found a closed box of Christmas lights. He walked over to our tree holding the box, pointed to the box, then pointed to the tree. I. AM. AMAZED.

-My family. My extended family has been going through some very rough times and I'm not sure everyone involved is handling it the best way possible. For the first time that I can EVER remember Thanksgiving was rocky. Not everyone showed up and people left early to go shopping- really folks??I am still thankful for them. Keep us in your prayers- please!

-Ice Cream

Accountability:

Since this is the first week I'm participating I don't have anything to add here. Let's see what happens next week.

If you are visiting from Dani's blog hop- please let me know you stopped by in the comments!

Momtography

It's no secret that I love photography and I want so desperately to be a momtographer. I'm inspired daily by many mom blogger's I follow and of course Pinterest. Since my last plea for a camera of my own I don't have any updates until in recent weeks when I've taken over hubby's camera. Here's the catch- I can only shoot in manual. Don't ask why but the 'automatic' feature on the camera just doesn't work. So I've enlisted the help of my brother and godfather to help me through this.

So far all of my pictures have stunk!

I mean can it not get any worse? I've been trying to do some online research to help me get better but I have to divide my time accordingly- know what I mean? So, in honor of my instagram birthday- yes, it's my instagram birthday!!!

I'm sharing some of those here.

(From top left)

Salvation Army, Trucks!, who stole the cookies from the cookie jar, daddy's home!, best.ice.cream.ever, baby fever, barnes & noble, chipotle, I really don't want to delete any of the 3,000+ pictures off my phone even if they are backed up in 3 different locations, where the sidewalk ends.

dinner time!, blog update, our daily walk, he loves veggies, fruits, and apps, shrimpfest, halloween, something I want to try, he's going to be looking for that, our junior firefighter, desperately trying to meet Faith IRL.


Okay, so you use IG but don't follow me yet? Send me a request!!! Just let me know that you did so because my photos are set to private (I'm scared of the stalkers). And, you use IG and want your own stats? I used Statigram.com- it's a cool website that gives you all sorts of statistics- I use it just for fun and not all that often. Wait, you don't use instgram and don't really know what I'm talking about but liked looking at all the pretty pictures? You can view my IG photos via my facebook page- hop on over and "like me". Aaaaand if you can help out my photography skills- please do so!

WW: Thanksgiving Day

Sadly, this is the one and only picture that I have from the Thanksgiving festivites.

Oh Hai!

Well hello there!

My guess is that if you aren't a "regular" then you are here from Becky's blog hop. To be honest- I'm glad she did this. It's really hard to find people you really connect with- you know the ones who really get you. I have a TON (okay 30) wonderful readers who I have gotten to know through their own journey's on their blogs and I am happy to have them here with me- but of course I wouldn't mind meeting more people.

So here's what you should know:

This is me

WHOA.

I almost never post pictures of me here. I'm afraid of someone from my personal life coming across it and being found out. There's plenty of people from my personal lie who reads this so I'm actually referring to former (and potential future) co-workers. I strive hard to keep my personal life and professional life separate. Okay, I know what you're thinking- "these people know what my son looks like so if they came across this blog I would be found out anyway!" I know. And I'm strange like that I hope you like strange!

I'm a mom. It's the whole reason I started blogging. I have an amazing (for real he's amazing!) 14 month old adorable (for real he's adorable!) little guy.

I recently became a SAHM. And why didn't anyone tell me what I was in for?? However, it's the best job I've had thus far :)

I also have an amazing (for real he's amazing) husband, wonderful family, and a bit of a crazy life (but then again who's life isn't crazy?)! Due to my recent career move I don't blog as much as I like (I have about 14 posts in draft) but I really hope to get back into the swing of things.


I know I don't have a witty intro post like other blogs (and Becky's definitely makes me want to erase this and start again) you may come across but this is me. I don't have the visually appealing blog (if you can help me rectify this- speak up!) but, there is so much more to me that I can't pour out into one blog post (like many of you are doing) so, I hope you can stay for a minute and get to know us before you decide not to come back. I look forward to meeting you so please leave a comment (or email me) to let me know you dropped by and I will def return the favor! hopefully we can be friends =)

WW: our guilty pleasure