"What are 3 Signifigant Memories From Your Childhood? This topic so hard for me, I have so many memories....maybe not as much from an early early age but just with different things. Each of these memories are important to me in a special way - it may have been a fun trip we were on....maybe it was a ball game....not necessarily life changing events but just little reminders of how lucky I am and how much fun I have had these past 26 years.
1. Anyone who knows me knows that I grew up playing softball. I loved it, I was a tomboy at heart and softball was my sport. From as early as I can remember Nana had a nickname for me..."Slugger". It stuck with me through high school....(I think she even called me that when I played adult co ed ball). That name didn't mean as much....but I heard it every game. She was there, every game (that meant so much more). I had one game in a tournament where I hit a homerun, not an in the park homerun but cleared the fence homerun. Over everything else I could hear her. Nana and Pa were then and still are, even though one of them is looking down on me from heaven, my biggest fans.
2. So my sister, lucky as she is to have me, argued with me all the time. She just couldn't accept the fact that....#1 - I was ALWAYS right and #2 - What I say went. If she would have only learned this her life would have been so much easier. So needless to say it was not uncommon for us to argue...fight....yell, etc. Well this one time, going to the lake (we did this often on the weekends) we had the pleasure of riding, in Friday afternoon traffic, with Pa to lake Allatoona....we started arguing and had not even been in the car 30 minutes yet. Not long after the arguing started Pa butted in with...."If you 2 don't stop arguing I'm going to puke!" That was all it took, we busted out laughing. Pa didn't punnish anyone, well maybe my mom back in the day but I highly doubt that too! That was his form of punnishment for us. Probably the best punnishment I have ever received.
3. When I graduated high school - I remember walking down on the field to go to our seats and looking at the field, and looking at the school, and I just started crying. I was scared. Things had been so easy up until then and I was now done with school. I was an adult and could make my choice about school and moving out and what I would do with myself and it all hit me standing there at the bottom of those steps. Other than finding out I was pregnant - it was probably the most scared I have ever been in my life.
Only because this is probably a family favorite story I will list an additional one.....
4. Our Girl Trips - me, my mom, my sister, and Nana used to take "girl trips" every summer. Well one girl trip that we went on was to Biloxi, MS. I love Biloxi but this trip was something special. First of all we were staying at our usual place, the Beau Rivage. If you haven't ever been there the Beau Rivage is like the king on the block. The hotel is beautiful and HUGE (it's probably the biggest one in Biloxi). So here we are....in the nicest hotel in Biloxi and my grandmother's tooth breaks off and she looks like the freaking toothless wonder walking around there. It wasn't like a back tooth that you couldn't see, it was one of her front ones. Trailer Park central FOR SURE!! We ended up at some drug store with Nana trying to super glue her tooth back in place. This was also the trip that my mom thought it would be funny to THROW a rubix cube at my head. (I was abused as a child....) and I am pretty sure that I got a concussion. The corner of that rubix cube sunk into the top of my head and I thought I was dying. Needless to say it was a very memorable trip. (Our girl trips usually were - bless my family's heart) haha!
After talking to Betsy yesterday for a while we discussed blogs and weightloss and recepies and working out and so much more but she wanted to know what blogs I follow. I have 3 blogs that I read pretty religiously and enjoy them a lot.
1. Fat Chick 2 Fit Chick - Jennifer is the author of this blog and she's fabulous! She started out last summer and her blog is about her journey. She has lost 90+ lbs now and posts tons of pictures and receipes!
2. Mama Laughlin - Brandi is another mom who is not fake....started her weight loss with C25K and has never stopped. She also posts TONS of pictures and receipes.
3. Skinny Meg - She is "Mama Laughlins" friend. They were both bloggers who lived in the Dallas, TX area and they met and are now best friends. Also a great weight loss story with a lot of work out ideas and receipes!
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