I finally came to the conclusion that if the world has come to blogging instead of beautiful leather bound journals then I'd embrace it whole heartedly. If only, like the rest of my reasoning, to save a few bucks and a few trees. So, here's a little about moi.
I'm currently in Washington State, just a hop, skip and a jump from Seattle. We started in California, went to Arizona for a few years, jumped on over to New York long enough to reproduce and buy a house and now we're here for a few months. Basically, we're wandering around aimlessly until we find the place that we know we want to stay for the long haul. My goal is to find such a place before Logan gets to kindergarten but, at this rate, I think I'd be happy if we found such a place before he hit puberty. Who knows.. this might be it. We've only been here for a couple weeks so it'll take a bit more exploring to find out for sure. So far, it's gorgeous, cute little towns, nice people and it's where Christmas Trees are born so that makes me smile a little bit. The only downer is that it's July and it's not warm enough to go swimming but I suppose that has it's upsides. I hated Arizona because I never wanted to spend time outside and it's kind of perfect to spend all of your time (when it's not raining) outdoors here as long as you don't get eaten alive by mosquito's.
I met my hubby in California when we were still in high school. No, we're not actually high school sweethearts since we never went to school together and I'm not corny enough to say high school sweethearts. We moved to Arizona so Cody could go to MMI in 2003 right after I graduated from HS. October 8th, 2005 we tied the knot... totally my idea by the way. I got a hair up my ass and decided to move us to NY last year which has proven to bring only one good thing... our son! Hey, if you're going to find the bright side to something it might as well be as bright as my gorgeous offspring. Plus, Cody and I tend to find fun wherever we go. That's the great thing about being married to your best friend... you really only need each other to have a good time. It's like a built in party.
My son, Logan (obviously), is about 2 and a half months old. I'm trying the "all natural" mom thing to see how it works out. If you tell anybody from my high school that I became a hippie they'll choke on their own tongue. But here I am. The opposite of everything my family is about haha. A Democrat, tree-loving, cloth diapering, baby-wearing, tea drinking, natural remedy using, hippie mom. My parents don't know what to make of it but I think they're warming up to the idea. Although the idea of poop in the washing machine seems to still freak some of them out. I also got a lot of strange looks about wanting an all natural birth but I did it and I'm not shy about tooting my own horn. If I ran a marathon I'd be proud of myself but childbirth was like a marathon ending in pushing a bowling ball out of my vagina so I'm a little more proud. I'll probably end up putting the full story in just to have it somewhere. I always wanted to hear every detail of peoples births but apparently not everybody is like me... I know, I was surprised, too.
So, here I am, in the middle of the forest in a very chaotic living environment trying to find my zen. I'm also trying to find a daily routine for my kid but I've always sucked at routines so this should be interesting. It's about as realistic as my goal to not introduce candy to him until he enjoys healthy food as snacks but I have the biggest sweet tooth of anyone I know. I'm looking forward to sharing my ups and downs along the way.
