women....

Let me start by saying this is an early morning rant that has come from no sleep....I am a women!  Not that I really want to admit that these days!  I often find myself asking what has happened to society these days?  I have friends...my best friend is the man I love and spend my days and nights with.  My second best friend is my adorable 10 year old squid who is not only the light of my life but funny, creative, loving and all around fun gal!  Those are my two besties that I love and would never trade in for anything!!  But as far as grown up female friends that is a completely different story.  I watch sex and the city and wonder how do 4 grown women with families and lives get along year after year....how do they not judge each other and their choices??  Then I remember it's fiction and all the love come from a script!  I love going out with people and get out of the house, but I am now fearful of people.  I am from the same cloth as my Grandma Lola, I wear my heart on my sleeve and go out of my way to help people.  However I have been hurt far too many times my caddy bitches and their superior attitudes lately.  What happened to the yesteryear's where people treated each other with respect and loved each other for their differences and stayed friends till their dying day?  I will always wonder if i was born in the wrong era!  I think I should have been best friends with Doris Day and live in a great house with my husband who went to work and came home at 6 for dinner every night and the weekends were spent with our little family and friends who stayed our friends for life. 

But for now I will be content with my little family my two besties as I call them and as friends come and go I hope I will stay the same and not let their negative behavior change my heart!!
 
Stephanie

Sippie Wallace - Women Be Wise

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!

Stephanie

UGH!!!!

So spending most of last week sick, sick, sick I finally felt better Saturday night!  Sunday spent the day totally up right and actually productive and made plans for water aerobics Monday morning....then 6am Monday morning here it came again....Ugh sick in bed did not leave the bedroom for a full 24 hours or so!  Jason lovingly  borough ice water and shoved a piece of fruit roll-up in my mouth so that the diabetic would not die...awww he really does love me!  The girl stayed away (a few weeks ago I apparently yelled and was not so nice when someone tried to wake me up while sick....After apologizing alot she is still deathly afraid of waking me up)....although the girl and her dad did visit the golden arches for dinner, there are some things to be grateful that your sick for.  This week I promise I will be try and be better!  Today is parent teacher conference and tomorrow a Dr appointment for the girl and Thursday dance that is all that is planned for now!  Hopefully there will be some sewing this week and some pics to come!!


Stephanie

WHAT????

So...this weekend is been rather slow yet somewhat fun!!  Relaxing with the boy and girl and out to lunch with the wonderful Connie!!  Stayed in pajamas for more time than not and cooked nothing.....so not like me!  The dog (Pudge the 4 pound Chihuahua) is drunk on a Sunday....rather funny yet sad at the same time.  Dishes are at least out of the sink and laundry is going.  This week will be better and busier!!


Stephanie

It's Been A Really Long Time!!

I admit it has been a really long time!! I really thought that I just couldn't do a blog....but now I realize it's an outlet that I really need!!! Time to get back to the craftin! Look for more, alot more and more often!! Thanks for keepin up agan I hope!!

Here are the adorable pictures of our girls wearing t-shirts crafted by the craftgirlly's. There are more to come and alot more products! check us out at www.craftgirlly.etsy.com.

What's up Doc?

Well it has been a tough couple of weeks...going through a complete cleanse of body, mind and soul. I do not talk about family very often but those that do know me, know that my mother is no longer with me. I have been trying to cleanse her out of my body. I have gained quite a bit of weight that I have blamed on a back injury, but alas I cannot any longer.

When I became a mother I realized that my childhood was completely strange and abusive. I really did not have any other "family" to gauge the way my family went. My mother who was married and divorced 5 times was a little different to say the least. I have finally come to terms with my childhood and finding out I have a wonderful sister at 29 has definitely helped! Have you ever met someone (other than a spouse) that thinks like you, words things like you, has the same toes that you have? Well I have not and it has been a wonderful 5 years in November that we have been able to laugh together and cry together and hopefully I have been as much of a help to her as she has to me!

So, that is what I have been working on. I have put the crafts, sewing, cooking and everything else except the girl and honey bunny away for around a month and have worked on me. I have needed a lot of work!

But now on to crafting, sorry for the serious tone, but that is what I believe makes us human!

I did the Bountiful farmer's Market for one week and found that it was not worth all the extra sewing, setting up and $10 to be a part of it! But oh well, ETSY here I stay! I don't know if other crafters have the feelings of doubt that I sometimes have. I look at an apron or curtain or just something that I have made and think I totally love it but why on earth would anyone else like it? Then the girl who is almost 9 comes in and says "Oh Mommy, I love it, can I have it? Will you make me one then in another color?" So I think maybe this will sell.

I am working on a new endeavor! I cater small parties and events quite often, and some of the ladies at these events have asked if I have a cookbook available. Well here it comes I am writing a cookbook! I use really simple ingredients and try to make them into something great and appealing to the eye. I learned how to cook mostly from my Grandma who I miss on a daily basis. She cooked for 40 or so ranch hands, breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can imagine what a great lesson this was for me my entire childhood. My Grandma Lola was the one constant and greatest family member I ever had. So I am putting some of my spins on Grandma's ole' good ones! And also if you hang around enough you will know that I dream recipes. Literally dream of recipes and food. I don't remember when this started but has been going on for some time now! I think Honey Bunny brings out the creativity in me and apparently the food dreams!

I have to get some work done on this "book" , I am including some pictures and stories of where the recipe came from so that maybe people will not think of me as quite so weird when they find out that I dream of food and recipes of things that I have never tried before and do not know how to make at all! The first batch is usually not the best but the fam will usually suffer through it for my sake and then give great feedback and improvement ideas. Not that they complain at all about all the yummy homemade food!