WOW!

WOW!!!

That was all that I could say when I logged onto my account today. I officially have 101 follower. I honestly cannot believe it.

I am so thankfully for all of my followers. When I first started blogging I thought the only people that would follow my blog would be my family members and the few RL friends that I have. I almost shut down my blog once and then realized that I really like what I'm doing and decided to continue.  I have 'meet' so many great people through blogging and have gotten some much needed advice. You guys are the best!!

I said that when I got to 100 followers that I would do my very first giveaway. I want to do a giveaway to thank all of you for taking time out of your world to come and visit mine.

I will be posting my giveaway post shortly so stay tuned....

Meet Me on Monday!! 12-06-10

It has been a while since I've joined in on Meet Me on Monday. It is always so much fun to let people get to know a little bit more about me and to get to know others. Here are a few little tidbits about me that I'm sure you couldn't make it through your week without knowing....j/k



Questions: 

1.  What is your favorite kind of cheese?
I'm actually really funny about cheese. I only like cheese if it is on pizza, broccoli and nachos, oh and broccoli and cheese soup..yum, my favorite.


2.  What size is your bed?
My bed, one of my favorite places to be is a nice king-size bed with a great pillow-top mattress. We have to have a king-size bed because someone sleeps like a crazy person...I won't name names(me).

3.  What is your most overused phrase?
I have so many overused phrases that it is so hard to pick just one. If I can choose just one I guess it would be...."are you serious(ly)?" I tend to always ask that question; knowing full well if they are serious or not.

4.  Green or purple grapes?
Growing up all we ever ate were green grapes but now I am in love with seedless purple grapes. They are a lot sweeter than the green grapes and we all know how I love my sweets.


5.  Shower, morning or night?
It sometimes depends on my work schedule but I usually like to bathe in the morning. It helps me to wake up and start my day.

Jingle Bells Batman Smells

It is officially that time of the year. That time when you hang the stocking with care, put up the tree and decorate while listening to Christmas music. Time for backing cookies, sending out family Christmas cards, buying tons of gifts, and family dinners.

I have to be honest...

I don't look forward to this time of the year.  It has been years since I have been excited about the holiday season. I wasn't always like that. I used to LOVE this time of the year. It was my favorite holiday....other than my birthday (Yes, that is my personal holiday).

I vividly remember Christmas time growing up. We would go out to pick out a Christmas tree on the first weekend of December.  It was alway a big ordeal in our house. It seemed like the tree would get bigger and fuller every year. My dad and brother would trim the tree in the garage while my mom would get the ornaments out of the attic and spend hours trying to untangle the lights from the year before. Then of course we had to test the light out to see if they still work. My theory is just throw them away and buy new ones...but that's just me.

Then the fun would begin. My dad would put on the Temptations Christmas CD and the singing and dancing would commence. It's amazing because I remember that we started with a record moved to the cassette tape and finally to the CD. Decorating the tree together was always fun. My brother and I would fight over who was going to put the angel on top of the tree.

The night before Christmas we would bake cookies for Santa...I don't know how he fits down the chimney with all those cookies he eats. When I was little I would have to sleep in my brothers room on the top bunk bed so that I wouldn't sneak downstairs and open presents. That didn't really work well. My brother and I had opening presents down to a science...you cut along the seam on the bottom, take a peek and tape it back up.

Then when 5AM hit...it was officially on. We would run into our parents room to wake them up and run down stairs. We would have to sit on the couch and wait until my parents got their cup of coffee. We would then proceed to rip the present to shreds trying to get them open while my dad video taped it all for evidence(I think).  Those were the days.!!

Now things are different. Once My parents got divorced Christmas was never the same. It didn't have the same feel but I still had the Christmas spirit. Once my dad passed away I think my Christmas spirit died with him. He was one of the major players in making Christmas time so special for me.

I have a family of my own and my daughter now and I want here to have to special Christmas memories that I had. So I am trying to get back into the Christmas spirit.  I'm having a hard time getting back into it partly because of me and my husband's work schedules. With my husbands new job we are having to work opposite schedules. He works in the mornings and I work mainly at night.  It is very rare that we are both home at the same time...unless we are asleep.

There are so many things that I want to do as a family this Christmas but I don't know how we are going to work things out. I am determined to make Christmas a special time of year for my family. Anyone have any tips they would like to share?

Let's Take Care of Home

Please excuse my mini mid-day rant. I just had some stuff on my mind that I wanted to share. I am an advocate for charity and volunteer work; so please don't take what I'm about to say the wrong way.

In the United States of America; we are so quick to start a relief project or send money and food to other countries. I understand that these places need help and assistance.

BUT WHAT ABOUT HOME?!?

We have millions of people here dying of HIV/AIDS, we have an enormous amount of homless and hungry people, places stuck by natural diasters that still haven't been rebuilt, and don't get me started on our national debt.

Why do we always send our money and resources elsewhere when it can do just as much good here at home?

World AIDS Day 2010

I'm believing in a cure!

Today is World AIDS Day and for those that don't know; I am an avid support of causes that are looking to help to improve the state of the world.  World AIDS Days begun in 1988 to help bring awareness to this horrible disease.

Here is a fact sheet compiled this month about the AIDS epidemic in the United States.

This year Alicia Keys and her organization Keep a Child Alive are on a mission to raise $1 millions dollars to help provide treatment, love and support to families affected by HIV/AIDS.

Starting today several celebrities will begin boycotting social networking in order to call attention to this cause. If you would like to make a donation you can text "BUYLIFE" to 90999 or you can go to BuyLife.org.



There are many other ways that you can get involved. For information you can go to these websites:

WorldAIDSDay.org
UNAIDS
Keep A Child Alive
Wold Aids Campaign

We Made It Another Year

*Whew* We made it another year. Even though we have only been married three years; we have definitely had our share of ups and down. We've stuck it out and here we are today.

As you are all my cyber girlfriends; I have to share with you what happened on our anniversary yesterday.

Originally, I had weekend plans for our anniversary. I wanted to go to Atlanta and have someone keep Kyla overnight so that we could go out and have a good time just the two of us because that NEVER happens. I was really proud of myself because I had everything planned out. Unfortunately and fortunately we had to change those plans because the hubby got a promotion at work and had to work over the weekend.

OK, so now its Monday morning and it is officially our anniversary. I am awakened my baby girl crying for mama. She must have know it was a special day because she actually slept in until 8AM. So I roll out of my bed and get her ready for school....Thank God for school because she drove me friggin' crazy this weekend.  

My hubby goes outside to warm the truck up and he tell me "let's go".

LET'S GO?!?

Where the h are we going? I haven't worked out yet or taken a bath....I'm not going anywhere or so I thought. I'm glad I had brushed my teeth already. We dropped baby girl off at daycare and we went to eat breakfast; stinking booty and all. After we had a delicious breakfast at my favorite local breakfast spot; he allowed me to go home and workout and take an bath...

Next stop was the spa...YAY! I got treated to a very much needed pedi / mani. 

This little piggy went to the market....

By this point I am officially starving and contemplating taking a nice healthy bite out of the hubby's arm if he doesn't feed me soon. I'm letting him make all the plans for the day so I let him choose the restaurant.  I was just praying that he wouldn't pick the restaurant I work at. He did good...

We ended up eating at the very restaurant where we first met. The place where it all began. The hubby got a little upset because the people who haven't seen me in years still love me and even remember what I like to eat. He has always had a little issue with how much people love me; he says I have and aura about me.  People either really hate me or love me.

Dang, is it time to get baby girl already? Well that was fun while it lasted. The hubby went to go pickup baby girl while I worked on a little homework. I hate to admit it but in the back of my head I was wondering if the spa visit all I was getting for our anniversary. Don't get me wrong I really loved it but I kinda wanted something tangible to remember the day. My memory isn't worth a flip and by next week I probably would have forgotten everything that happened.

Hubby and baby girl came home with another surprise....shoes.....SCORE!!!

What do you think he had in mind when he bought these...hmmmm?

I'm lucky to have such a great husband he listens and pays attention to everything I say. Sometimes that a bad thing but mostly its a great thing. The hubby read my post about getting my swag back and he is helping me do just that.

I love that guy!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!



I hope that everyone had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving Day!

My Thanksgiving Day was very untraditional but I spent it with the people that I love most and that's all that really matters.