Glowing Giggles

Last week was reallllll rough....it was a week of mourning.... for my fat. Sorry I didn't actually die I might be a little dramatic but it's the closest thing I can imagine to what death feels like. So T H R E E years ago when I was in MUCH better shape a group of us ladies used to take a workout class called Tone & Sculpt I call it Tone & Death because the first class I attended I had to bite down on my t-shirt to keep from vomiting!! It was rough!  Now I've done a P90X, Insanity, T25, Jillian Michaels, Shaun T video, you name it I've struggled through it but nothing compares to Vanessa....our own personal drill sergeant who never leaves home without her violin because she doesn't know the word sympathy and tears actually fuel her!! So anywho Life happened and got busy and that class came to an end and three years went by....some people had babies, some people stayed in the gym, some people went months without the gym (Me) so you know how that go

6 months ago today I experienced probably one of the hardest things ever! I was getting ready for work when the water broke.... HOLY CRAP! TODAY IS THE DAY!?!?! I don't think I'm ready! I mean I knew this day would come but OMG like its time!!!! I rush to Tallahassee....why I don't know. They put you in one room to check you then you wait then they move you to another room then you wait. Like why the heck is there so much waiting..... There is a baby trying to come out! Ummmm.... Hello let's get the ball rolling. Well I'm sure many of you know once you get nice and comfortable that's when things start to happen! The contractions started getting closer and closer and more intense with each one. Everyone in the room could see them coming. It would be a team effort. You pull here, you push here, you fan here, chapstick now, water... tiny break.... then REPEAT! The Doctor came in at one point and was like it'll be a few hours but you are progressing nicely.

I wasn't prepared for what I would hear early yesterday morning when I got in my car and started to drive to work. It was about 5:40 am Monday October 2nd I was listening to 94.9 FM and it took a few minutes for me to even realize what had happened because the poor radio host could barely form sentences and he too was processing what had happened. When he finally said the words there has been a shooting in Las Vegas at an outdoor Country Music Festival, several are dead and multiple are injured....my heart sank! I couldn't help but think about all of the times I have been to Vegas or even an outdoor concert. My first time in Vegas I went to an outdoor concert while there then my next two trips to Vegas were for very large events that this could have easily happened at. The thought literally makes me sick to my stomach. By 6:15 am videos, snaps, tweets, photos, news articles, and posts were everywhere. All I could do was cry while I read detail after detail and watched videos o

Look out World my baby dinosaur turned F O U R today and he is ready to take on the world!! A few milestones we have hit just this year  Had his first sleepover out the Beach travel trailer Survived his first Hurricane (BARELY) NOW SLEEPS AT NIGHT!!!! Read that again! ----- Now Sleeps at Night ---- yep! Gimme all the praise hands!!! This is HUGE!  The past four years have been sleepless nights but we have now graduated from that  nonsense  and now we are a BIG BOY! Happy Dance Time!! His favorite thing is still the same BARKING! God Bless America I will never be able to break him of that so I am learning to embrace it.... I mean who doesn't love loud outbursts of hysterical barking  at random times throughout the day the night....ALL THE DAMN TIME  {insert eye roll}   His Grandpa (My daddy) and Car rides come in at a pretty close tie of what he likes more. He can be in one of his barking fits and I can whisper the word "GRANDPA"

So you slept through Hurricane Irma.....Cool Story  (insert eye roll) Well guess who didn't sleep through it.... THIS GIRL RIGHT HERE  because of a baby dinosaur that is scared of everything in this entire world Arghhhhhh!!! So when the wind started to pick up around 1 am that is when the crying began. Then cue the thunder and lightening and it was downhill from there. Well when you are in a house with 5 other adults, 3 other dogs, and a baby you don't really wanna be the JERK with the barking dog that wakes everybody else up who was so peacefully sleeping. So after 30 minutes of whining and frantically barking I thought okay let's treat this like a tornado warning and go into the tiny bathroom. So I grabbed my pillow, blanket, phone and flashlight and we camped out. I turned music on as loud as I could get it in hopes that he would calm down and we could go to sleep...... but boy oh boy was I wrong.  By the way I had given him one benadryl ar

Hurricane Harvey a Category 4 hurricane made landfall near  Rockport, Texas , at peak intensity  late on August 25 causing  catastrophic damage on so very many.  Watercolor photo by @ poppyandpinecone People have lost everything, their homes, their photos, their pets, family members! People have been left with nothing but the clothes on their back. So h ow embarrassing is it that in the midst of all this suffering, and seeing the good of mankind coming together to help ALL Texans of all kinds, that people in the media find it appropriate to criticize our First Lady's choice of shoes on her visit to Texas??!!  Seriously, you are worried about her shoes instead of the devastating crisis that all of these people are going through! So what you took away from their visit was her wardrobe?!! Thankfully those people are the minority and you don't represent what America is all about.  America is NOT about race, gender, who is offended by this or that,  statues being torn

Who ever invented Makeup.... I hate Y O U! I mean really it is a LOVE/HATE relationship..... I mean I love that you can hide my puffy allergy eyes and all but man OH man....Why are there so many steps?!!?   Like why can't there just be one product?! Why is there a million different products that do so many different things! Seriously I can't even keep up with the steps and most days I get it very very wrong! And just when I think I finally understand the whole contour thing then another trend comes along and then I have to add another 5 minutes into my makeup routine.   Sephora & Ulta are H U G E money traps that just suck me in everytime! Ohhh you have the newest hottest eye shadow palette and its on sale for $54....OMG yes put it in the basket! I only end up using like 3 of the 10 colors but man did I get a deal....(Insert eye roll).   So I may have watched one makeup tutorial or a thousand over time and everyone is different so I seriously don't hav