I AM - BECAUSE YOU ARE

The moment I have been waiting for has arrived! This is the last wallpaper of 2019 and the last wallpaper I will be making for a while! I know that a few people are upset with me about this, but I am over the moon... Again, sorry, not sorry! December 2019

Run away, but we're running in circles Run away, run away... YouTube Playlist - IABYA

Another trip around the sun and we wake up to a 4 year old this morning! It really is unbelievable how fast time flies when you get to watch your LO grow. And grow she has! My little dinosaur loving, horseback riding, rock collecting, pine cone hoarding, truck and car enthusiast is simply flourishing. She likes to help around the house, set the table, clean up her toys and I even caught her cleaning the shower walls the other day! She has tried more foods at her age than I had at 20, but if she could live on Eggo waffles, sausages, apples and cheese alone – she would! She has always been, and still is, our unicorn child. She continues to have more empathy in her little finger than kids twice her age, but hearing her ability to express it now (verbally) has made it that much more amazing. I absolutely love her goofiness, her ear to ear smile, and her infectious laugh (even when it comes out as an evil sounding cackle at times). Her “joie de vivre” is admirable. If you ask he...

My daughter surprised me a couple of nights ago. She happily took out about a dozen My Little Ponies, lined them up, had me help her brush their hair one by one and made sure we didn’t stop until they were all “nice and pretty”. Nothing unusual for an almost 4-year-old, right? Wrong. Not MY daughter. She has clearly rejected the majority of “girl-related” anything since she was able to convey her feelings to us. She has never played with dolls, dislikes princesses, rejects dresses, and so on. She prefers cars, trucks, everything blue, and dinosaurs which is completely fine by me! All of her friends are boys and she has always been outnumbered by them at her daycare so this may explain a few things. But, I admit that I am not overly girly either, so I get it. In either case, our child does not conform to gender roles, and that is totally OK! She’s different, but she is thriving and we love every ounce of her – whether she refers to herself as a girl OR a boy. That said, I am als...

Remember when I said I go through reading droughts and then I simply devour books? Well, I did it again, because I actually liked Tarryn Fisher's F*ck Marriage so much, I went on to speed through F*ck Love , I Can Be A Better You (aka Bad Mommy) and now I am almost done with Mud Vein too! F*ck Love by Tarryn FIsher I Can Be A Better You by Tarryn Fisher Mud Vein by Tarryn Fisher Despite the similarity in some of the titles, these books are not part of a series. However, she does have a few series and I plan to read those after I am done with all of the standalone books. Her stories have an aspect of romance to them, but in a dark and twisted way; they are mysterious, thriller style, suspenseful and psychological. Totally not chick-lit, but I cannot put them down! I have not been reading them in the order they were written, and because of this I can see a change in her writing - an improvement. The earlier books ...

Hair is grey and the fires are burning So many dreams on the shelf You say I wanted you to be proud of me I always wanted that myself When you gonna make up your mind When you gonna love you as much as I do When you gonna make up your mind 'Cause things are gonna change so fast YouTube Playlist - IABYA