Life as they see it?

I've always wondered when my life would be enough for other people. I love my life with a great husband, three beautiful cats, and a playful puppy (he's four, but who's counting). But it seems that others aren't content to let it be. The proverbial 'they' are always wondering when we'll have kids because they don't seem to think we could possibly be happy without them.

I would like to say this for the record. We are happy. We love each other, we love that we can sleep in when we want, we love that we can run out and have fun when we want. When bad things happen we don't have to worry about how it will affect the kids and we don't have to worry about paying for college. I don't feel like my life would be any more complete with kids.

I don't feel like I am less of a person because I don't have children. I don't feel like I've taken the easy way because I don't have children. I don't feel like I'm selfish because I don't have children. I believe that there is more to my being a woman than just being a mother. There are so many facets to being a woman, that because I don't have that facet that I am less. I am proud of who I am. I don't need children to confirm that for me.

Life As I Eat It

We tried out Coastal Cupcakes today. I had the key lime cupcake with key lime glaze. What a bite of the tropics! He tried the red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting and liked it.

Another New Beginning

I keep thinking that this will be the day I start writing everything down. This will be the day everything changes and I become more organized, or everything will finally calm down, or everything will work out exactly like it is supposed to. I have been thinking this for...years. So why is today different? Because I finally sat down to do this, to write down what I think and what I feel. I have such a mess of emotions, feelings, thinkings, and what I'm supposed to be doings that I give in. Today is actually the day I start. And I promise myself that tomorrow I will continue. That I will not only start writing in my blog, but I'll write some of those things clattering around in my head that feels so full that I wish some of the words and thoughts would sort of just fall out and give me some room up there, in that space between my earrings.