I’m the worst person anybody could take on a date. I have seen every romantic comedy ever made. I am a self proclaimed recovering my-life-should-be-a-movie-aholic. See 90’s love stories for more info there. My expectations are notoriously high. I do not kiss on the first date (or for a long time after). I’m a type 4 on the Enneagram, which basically means I am super picky when it comes to dating.

So based on my track record and let downs, I really was not expecting much when the guy I had been working with the summer of 2010 texted me

Facebook memories is a scary place. They appear at the top of your feed, a harmless little thing. You click on it to see what you were doing last New Years Eve, and two scrolls down BAM. Your high school self is spouting some super passive aggressive comment to your ex in the hopes they’d message you on AIM later. Your heart cringes and your stomach twists for every time you ever said the words “I hate drama. I just hate it. I avoid it at all costs.” Your hypocrisy stares you down with the Facebook Logo trademarking it for all eternity. Or is this just me? Partydiva428?

I have been thinking a lot about my childhood. It’s probably the nostalgia of Christmas time full of traditions that started when I was young, watching old home videos of my first presents under the tree…

Sometimes marriage isn't picture perfect, date nights are less than Instagram worthy, YET those messy and real moments are sometimes the most beautiful. Here is one of those times for us that happened just a few weeks ago. 

Is it a boy? Is it a girl?

This is what was immediately going through my mind minutes after I found out I was pregnant. My husband, the second of four boys, and I the oldest of two girls were fairly split down the middle in terms of family backgrounds. He grew up wrestling, playing Power Rangers, football, Transformers, while I grew up dancing to Disney songs, playing Pretty Pretty Princess, ballerina, and Cinderella. So only slightly different. Either way one of us would be embarking on a whole new adventure with our baby.

A brief recap of my baby sister's wedding this past weekend. The wedding day much like Courtney and Steve was a sight to witness. Never were two people more perfectly created for one another than Courtney and Steve Slovenski.