tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497985566399351602024-02-21T03:53:51.149-05:00Siriusly CraftablesCrafting my way through life!Stacy @ Siriusly Craftableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590674384340585882noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849798556639935160.post-48175633336797475072013-05-30T22:15:00.000-04:002013-05-30T22:15:25.791-04:00Cara Box Reveal!!<div class="Wifessionals-button" style="margin: 0 auto; width: 200px;">
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Both times I've done the Cara Box exchange I've been partnered with some really awesome girls</center>
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This month I met <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/frame?blog=4998523&group=0&frame_type=a&link=aHR0cDovL2RhY2hzaWVkb29kbGVzLmJsb2dzcG90LmNvbS8&frame=1&click=0&user=0"><b>Laura</b></a> (I sent to her) and<b> <a href="http://www.lifewithamberlyandjoe.com/">Amberly</a></b> (she sent to me).</center>
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It's a beautiful songs and I think it'll always be a favorite.</div>
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It's been my husband and my's song since just about the minute we started dating. </div>
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I was an avid Glee watcher for a while,</div>
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You ever have moments like that?</div>
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I can always listen to this song when I'm feeling down</div>
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and usually by the end I'm totally pumped up. Love it.</div>
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I know it's not five songs but theses were the ones I came up with after a lot of thought.</div>
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Day 24 of the blog everyday in May challenge!</center>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I learned a lot in school. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">You know, all the really necessary stuff</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">But seriously, looking back at high school it's amazing how little I actually knew.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I've pretty much learned this through my relationship with my husband.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I've talked a lot on this blog about how he came along and saved me from my</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Did that make sense? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I spent my entire high school career worried</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">about what other people were thinking about me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Even now, I'm a huge people pleaser.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">But I think I've come to grips with the fact that not</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Just because you're good at something doesn't mean it's always easy.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm still learning this one. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It's hard to understand that just because you have a talent</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">for something doesn't mean that it's going to be easy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Some days it'll come easy, others it will be like pulling teeth.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It's just the natural ebb and flow of life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Easy, then hard, easy, then hard.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I think I'm a pretty decent writer. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I enjoy writing. But it doesn't always come easy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I ALWAYS have difficulty ending my posts.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Do I do a brief summary?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Do I just cut it off?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Do I sign it like a letter?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Ugh! I just never know.</span><br />
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It's day 20!!</center>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love everything about my life and I wouldn't change it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">But there is a little something I've been struggling with recently</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">and I've been looking for a good way to bring it up on this here blog.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This seems like a pretty good opportunity to me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And as you're reading, don't get me wrong.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don't want to complain.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm posting this for two reasons.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">one</span>. In the hopes that someone out there has experienced what I'm going through and can help.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">two</span>. In the hopes that my experience can help someone else.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And if neither of those things are accomplished through this post then oh well!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">At least I was open and honest with something I've been struggling with for months.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It all started wayyy back in October. Right after my wedding.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, it actually started way before that but it came on very gradually.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It got pretty bad in October so I always think of that as the starting point.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Around that time I started feeling this awful ache in my leg muscles.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It wasn't like my muscles were sore from working out.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It actually felt like I had bruises all up and down my thighs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So if I ran my fingers up my thighs it would hurt.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the past seven months it's spread to pretty much my whole body.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">First my arms and then my back and then my sides and stomach.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some days are just awful.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I've had to readjust my entire wardrobe. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can't wear nylons or leggings.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I've changed the way I do certain things. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like, when I carry a bunch of books I can't lean it on my hip</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">or it hurts. Or when I'm kneeling I can't lean my elbow on my thigh.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the worst thing of all...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can't wear skinny jeans. On most days.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Obviously I've been working with my doctor to figure out what the heck is going on.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There have been times where I've totally broken down with my husband</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">and thought for sure I had some terminal illness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Total panic attacks.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And then there have been days where I'm so confident I will get past this and move on.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">They'll figure it out and I'll be cured.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">But alas, it's seven months later and I have no answers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">They thought it was rheumatoid arthritis but that was a negative.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">They thought it was my thyroid. Negative.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">They thought it was Lyme. Multiple times. Negative.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I've had sooooooo much blood work done and my doctor keeps telling me that</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">by just looking at my blood work I look fantastic. It's perfect.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">But I don't feel perfect.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">What I've ended up with is either Fibromyalgia or Celiacs disease.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My doctors tell me there's no way it's Celiacs because my tests came back negative </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">and I don't have that many GI problems. I've read otherwise. As I hear it,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">the blood tests are highly inaccurate and a lot of people who have celiacs never even have GI issues!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So here's where I'm at now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It might be either of these diseases or neither of them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm praying it's one or the other just so I can have an answer!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For Fibromyalgia the treatment is usually an antidepressant.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My doctor prescribed me Cymbalta.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a serious drug and after reading all the side </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">effects I know you don't screw around with it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although my doctors think it's unlikely I've decided to cut out gluten</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">before taking the Cymbalta. I'd rather go natural and find out it doesn't work</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">then start taking such a serious medication just to find out I don't need it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I've been gluten free for just over three weeks now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We've also cut out dairy because we learned that the Casein in it looks so similar</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">to gluten that somebody's body with Celiacs might attack the Casein too.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let me tell you, this has NOT been easy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gluten free was fine. But Dairy?!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you know how many things have dairy in them?!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I'm a vegetarian.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's been tough but if it solves the problem, then hey, I'm all for it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know that the benchmark for gluten free is six months so I'm not expecting miracles overnight.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So far I haven't really felt a difference. I have good days and bad days just like I always have.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'd love to hear from anyone with celiacs or fibromyalgia or who has had a similar experience to mine.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My ears are open and I am definitely taking tips and advice!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cuz the sooner I can feel better and move past this, the better!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the meantime, I'm just trying to live my life like nothing is wrong and just enjoy every second!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I just couldn't think of a good story from my childhood </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm finally sitting down on this</span></span></div>
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I know my life is great and I'm thankful for it.</center>
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Ecstatic about my life, actually.</center>
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I'm just all around happy :)</center>
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She's always on my daily read list!</center>
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Here's the info about the giveaway she's sponsoring.</center>
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There's some great stuff available here and entering is super easy!</center>
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Stacy @ Siriusly Craftableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590674384340585882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849798556639935160.post-19306408996192949902013-05-11T14:32:00.001-04:002013-05-11T14:32:19.722-04:00Going Once, Going Twice, Sold!Everyday in May challenge, day ten? Day eleven? I've lost count. <div><br></div><div>You'll have to excuse my very limited post today. Jeremie and I are currently on our way to the city - and by <i>the </i>city I am of course referring to NYC. I forget that other people around the country probably don't consider NY <i>the </i>city but us connecticutites call NY <i>the </i>city. As if there were no other cities to speak of? I dunno why we do that. </div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, Jeremie and I are on the train as we speak for a very special Mother's Day celebration with his mom, so I'll be posting today's everyday in May challenge from my phone. </div><div><br></div><div>Today were supposed to sell ourselves in ten words. And I thought the summary of my life in 250 words was difficult. Ten words?!? </div><div><br></div><div>I've thought and thought but this challenge forces me to pull out the big guns. To pull out my secret weapon because my life just isn't that exciting. Something I'm pretty sure most people are just a little bit jealous of because i can't see how someone wouldn't be. Here it goes. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><i>I</i></b><i><b> have the cutest freaking dogs on the planet!!</b></i></div><div><br></div><div>Done. If that doesn't sell you, well then I'm just not sure what will. </div><div><br></div><div>Sure, maybe I'm a little biased but who could resist these faces?</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYadDW8fd44DfwDkcBB5KtNFU23xVL7YYRvJ6dADkRBsgo3EH8Lge3Qzt2Ns4INcsEXbypFPlQwoIZ-rQwNr08xJKvYNdcPpro-yxfX3i4rc4fCgkEoTzEEykjGm8zk-EJwcG2HmsSZtDM/s640/blogger-image-1366442301.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYadDW8fd44DfwDkcBB5KtNFU23xVL7YYRvJ6dADkRBsgo3EH8Lge3Qzt2Ns4INcsEXbypFPlQwoIZ-rQwNr08xJKvYNdcPpro-yxfX3i4rc4fCgkEoTzEEykjGm8zk-EJwcG2HmsSZtDM/s640/blogger-image-1366442301.jpg"></a></div><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uElGKXdIFGtCS_lvH2YkYGdc174NGe9rEJXvwmQ7MaorTbbATUfEWHUh4KNI9b6JCV4Toj3ML4KflcAyoPeKd_vCFuLq-qjXcqNEduF3HbrlrnhZ5Rurxw3HrlUo2_1D5R81kyqSj23G/s640/blogger-image--1001174552.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uElGKXdIFGtCS_lvH2YkYGdc174NGe9rEJXvwmQ7MaorTbbATUfEWHUh4KNI9b6JCV4Toj3ML4KflcAyoPeKd_vCFuLq-qjXcqNEduF3HbrlrnhZ5Rurxw3HrlUo2_1D5R81kyqSj23G/s640/blogger-image--1001174552.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Not me. That's for sure!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Happy early mothers day to all the moms out there!! Hopefully this post turns out ok but I'm going to apologize in advance in case it gets all screwy. Sometimes the blogger app just can't be trusted!</div>Stacy @ Siriusly Craftableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590674384340585882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849798556639935160.post-65953098250646476362013-05-10T17:09:00.002-04:002013-05-10T17:09:24.451-04:00Exciting Announcement!<div style="text-align: center;">
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This one time..we were not at band camp.</center>
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It had been a really lovely evening.</center>
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"Bam, bitch went down."</center>
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It started as a normal night. Everything was going fine.</center>
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I was the color of a fire engine as I picked myself up off the group, brushed myself off and returned to my seat. On that same night I spilled an entire cup of soda on my khaki colored pants. That was fun too.</center>
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You know, being a teacher I feel like I have a lot of shareable moments in my day.</center>
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Being a special education teacher makes that even more true.</center>
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My students are so awesome and so unique, it would be hard to pick just one moment to share with you guys.</center>
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Because sometimes, we really just need to hear those two little words!</center>
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My principal, being the awesome person she is,</center>
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To accomplish this, she had the staff eat in two hour long shifts while support staff watched the kids in the cafeteria or the gym. I'm considered support staff since i don't have a classroom. Which means I got to eat for an hour and then I was on movie duty in the gym for an hour.</center>
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Our school would be considered 'inner city'.</center>
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The kids I work with are great but a lot of them have had some tough lives.</center>
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Some of them have had to grow up so fast and us teachers really see the toll it takes on them.</center>
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My advice is definitely to say whatever you need to say.</center>
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I mean, don't go around saying completely inappropriate things all the time.</center>
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I am a quiet person. It's just my nature. It's who I am.</center>
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But seriously, if there's one thing I do it's try and live my life to the fullest.</center>
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This has been especially true since the tragedy in my home town last December.</center>
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Sandy Hook 100% changed my life.</center>
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Not that I made any super noticeable changes.</center>
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If there's one thing Sandy Hook taught me it's that we never know when our last day is going to be.</center>
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'I can't wait meet the person I'm going to marry'</center>
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My husband and I will never just be the two of us again...after we have kids.</center>
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This is an important time.</center>
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Just like all the different phases of my life.</center>
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But relaxing to me always feels like wasted time.</center>
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I used to make excuses for stuff like not taking my dogs out.</center>
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Today's post, everyday in May challenge, day five, is supposed to be about professing your love for one of your blogger friends.</center>
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So, Miss <a href="http://forevernewlywedded.blogspot.com/"><b>Karla</b></a>, this one is for you.</center>
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If you don't know her already, Karla blogs over at Forever Newly Wedded.</center>
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Karla and I actually went to high school together and she is one of the most caring, nicest people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.</center>
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I actually followed her blog before I became a blogger myself and she was kind of an inspiration to me.</center>
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I knew I wanted to start a blog.</center>
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I had been playing with the idea for roughly a year,</center>
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She was the first one to offer her help and advice</center>
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And she was always there to answer questions I had.</center>
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But Karla helped me. A lot.</center>
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She probably doesn't even realize it but she did.</center>
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Like I said, I followed her blog before I even became a blogger </center>
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I still look forward to her posts everyday.</center>
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She's so lighthearted and happy and fun loving. </center>
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I always love watching her VLOGs for the Newlywed Game.</center>
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I.LOVE.KARLA.</center>
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