Morning everyone (started to say morning ladies but I welcome all)! I plan to start working on making this a real blog.  I have a whole list of things (important things) to blog about and to start getting your comments on!  But, for this blog I am selfishly blogging as part of a contest!  Please bear with me for this! The contest I am entering has a whole list of stuff to win!  We all love winning! Gifts or winning in other ways.  Like winning a control contest with a teen daughter---parents of teen (especially teen girls) totally get what I mean.  I love my girls (talking about the 2 whole still live at home with us) as well as my son and his family of course!  But, the teen drives me to wanting to have a glass of wine earlier and earlier every day...didn't say I gave in to the power of the vine...but I sure think about it when dealing with her some days. 

Any who (as my elementary daughter says) I want to get into all this hot mess of parenting later.  For now just entering a great contest.  The question the Birthday Bash Giveaway asks is -- What do I want for my birthday?  I will be 52 this year...I am not an age worrier but I would like to not look my age who wouldn't like to look younger?   But for my birthday what would I like??  Mani-Pedi? Massage? Alone time at home?  Time to do some reading or sewing?  For someone else to walk the dog?  Dancing lessons ( learning to shag is on my bucket list, has been for many, many years!) Dinner alone with my hubby?   Well, of course I would like them all...but I am at the time of my life I would most like (love) time at home alone that I felt I could forget chores and watch old movies, or read, or time to learn to blog or what ever I felt like that day (oh and I do mean like a whole day not just 20 minutes or so but real time!  Sad, but true I do love quiet time at home....  Homebody...and I am proud of it!

Thank you for "listening" and look forward to getting to sharing more later!  Actually, it's very soothing to talk to you all - you listen and don't say "mommy get me, mommy I need or anything that resembles the word mommy!

My first blog...

Hello...Welcome to my first blog..I hope we learn much from each other!  My family has a variety of "challenges" that I feel sure there are many other familys dealing with and hope that we can connect and be supportive of each other while learning from each other...

I will take the time soon to introduce my family and myself to you...you know how it is..."when I have a minute".  When we were small did we ever think a "minute" was as short as it has become now that we are adults.  Kinda like how as children we never think summer will come, we thought we would be in school forever.  Now as a "Middle aged" mom (I say middle age with tongue in cheek- I feel middle aged, but girls so often remind me that i am in their minds as old as dirt- this will be a blog for another day anyway...) Summer comes around all too quickly. 

Don't get me wrong I love having my family around me - but they bring their on challenges.  Again - all that is for later when I have time and blogging better in hand.

Hope to hear from you and hope you will join me on this journey.