Mommy Musings

So I saw this post on a friend of a friend's blog, and decided to jump in too! {click on the picture to head to her blog} The whole point is to own all the little, and big things that make us who we are.  I love this idea of us {mostly} women coming together and being proud of exactly who we are.  No more apologizing for it!! So here's my list: ~ I don't care if it damages my hair and it never grows again, I much  prefer being a blond and don't plan on changing back again. - I am one of those people who really does love exercising.  I always feel worse physically on days I don't.  I've pretty much been this way since high school. ~ I am scared every day that something will happen to Skip at work. ~ I can't stand reality shows. ~ I love cooking but I hate coming up with ideas of what to make. ~ Laundry sits in my room waiting to be put away for days. ~ I am Catholic but struggle to get to church every week.  It's not that I don't want to, it's jus...

I'm linking up with Becky to kick off her 52 weeks of blogging with a purpose.  This week's topic is Who I Am. I could sit here and talk about how I'm a mother, a wife, a former teacher, etc.  But then I cam across this picture that Emmy took of me recently. She was taking a picture of me while I was taking a picture of her.  I think you can learn a lot about me from this simple pictures.  You can see a lot of my physical characteristics, I'm blond, thin, have really bony collar bones.  But if you look closer, you can see so much more than that. You can see that when I'm home I'm a very simple person, no make-up, hair up in a bun, comfy clothes. You can assume I must really like pink if I'm a 30 year old mom who has a hot pink phone case.  You can see that I'm thrifty and kind of cheap because I bought those pj pants when I was 18 and a freshman in college.  So yes I've been wearing them for 12 years. You can tell I keep my house pretty clean bec...

I am so excited that Becky is having this link-up today!  I've been wanting Skip to do a guest post on here for a while, but he could never figure out what to write about...so this is just perfect!  So without further ado here is the very first blog post by my man Skipper:) Hello ladies! (and random guy who googled "how to clean grout") I have been told that my task today is to share something with the blog community that NOBODY knows about Mandy.  Now, I thought long and hard about this and I realized that while you all know her as Mommy Mandy, the beautiful, thoughtful, warm hearted, loving mother, and devoted wife... there is something she does not share on her blog.  Through the process of thinking up a topic that has to do with her blog, carefully crafting her words, editing and then re-editing her posts, and then finally posting, the dialogue and narrative of her blog does not truly represent her... shall we say, actual speaking voice.  For ...

On Twitter and Facebook recently, I encouraged all of you to ask me whatever you want!  I had also done the same on my 1000th post giveaway and never got around to answering them... whoops . I got some great questions and will be answering them over the next two days! Did you have family in the military or police force before you were married? Were you at all prepared for it? The only experience I had with law enforcement before I met Skip was that my best friend's dad was a state trooper.  But when I met Skip he was in the police academy, so we've just kind of figured it out together. I did have some experience with the military before I met Skip though.  My cousin {who is three years older than me} went to West Point.  I was always really close with him, and became very close with a lot of his friends, during that time.  I learned a lot about the military while they were at West Point.  I also learned a lot about deployments when all those boys headed of...