The Sisterhood of The World Bloggers Award

I never expected to find such a community among bloggers!

I am so lucky to have received another blog award. This one in particular, I find myself humbled to  receive because of the blogger that I received it from. You see, Jenn from My Daily Jenn-ism, gave me this award, and that means a lot because she was one of the first people that I connected with on the Cassandra's Corner facebook page. Jenn has amazing support for other bloggers and their pages and she does this Pay it Forward where she picks pages that she likes and tells her followers to go check it out. Well, I was one of her pay-it-forward recipients and from that I was able to first see how supportive and out-reaching this blogging community really is. So the fact that Jenn picked my blog to receive this award, is super special, because not only has she been with me from the very beginning but her blog, is absolutely wonderful as well. She can be funny and serious, and you can really relate. So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you Jenn! Please allow me to Pay it Forward to her now and go check her blog out! My Daily Jenn-ism
Now the name of this blog award is called, The Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award. How fitting is that??

The Sisterhood of World Bloggers:

1.  Thank the blogger who gave you the award.

Consider that done! Jenn, thank you, thank you! insert HUGE hug! 

2.  Post 7 things about yourself. 

Ok, here we go:

#1. I always, always have my toe nails painted. I don't believe I have ever gone 2 days in a row without toe nail polish on since I was like 10 years old.

#2. I have eczema and it sucks. Because of it, I HATE showing my hands!

#3. I have a sister, Stephanie who is 10 years older than me and a brother Izik, who is 6 years older than me. I love them both more than they probably even know. I forgive them for covering my eyes when I was little and telling me Santa was on t.v. I'm over it...really..

#4 My husband Josh and I have never been on a real vacation together. I can't wait for that to happen one day!

#5. My car is filthy. Like really disgusting on the inside. I don't know what is wrong with me, but I just can't keep it clean. I blame it on the kids, but truth be told, I think it would be a disaster without them...just less Cheeze-its and fruit snack wrappers.

#6. I hate cooking! I hate meal planning even more!

#7. Dear God, I once had to wear an eye patch for a summer when I was younger. Can you imagine..an eye patch and eczema (plus asthma)?? Luckily I grew up in a small town, and kids had no choice but to be friends with me. I no longer have to wear glasses though and my vision is great, thank you very much!

3.  Pass this award on to 7 other deserving bloggers, letting them know that they have been chosen.  

4.   Include a logo of this award in your post.

Here are the deserving 7 that I am passing this blog award onto:
Baking in a Tornado
Crazy Mama
The Empowered Mama
Callia's Corner
Cup of Tea and a Blog
From Thick to Thin
Life of Bon

Enjoy! xx

We Were Like Peas and Carrots

My best friend in High School was Miranda. During that time Forest Gump was popular so we always coined ourselves as being like peas and carrots (I was the pea, she was the carrot!). We were inseparable four most of our 4 years of high school.  We did the typical BFF things, hung out every weekend, talked all night on the phone during the week, laughed with eachother until we thought our stomachs would burst, had constant boy talk, and  we shared our secrets, dreams and fears.

We are prob 15 here and getting ready for Winter Carnival . I am the one sitting.

Then of course during our senior year, our friendship started to strain a little bit. We were both going off to college at different schools. She started to date a guy that I had been really close with (no interest in though...trust me!!) so things were just a little weird.  We saw each other a few times during our college years but after that we totally lost touch.

I had heard from a few friends over the years that Miranda was asking about me, wanting to know where I lived, what I was up to, etc.  Then one day I get a message on Facebook from her and she is so happy to have found me. I was happy she had too. I had no hard feelings towards Miranda at all. It was just one of those things that happened in life as far as I was concerned. Come to found out at a playdate later, she thought I was mad at her and her boyfriend (who she was no longer with when we reconnected) had told her that I was a bad influence on her so we couldn't be friends. WTF! 

 Anyways, it's funny how lives can run so parallel...our sons were the same age and were born a few weeks apart, we had the same quirky cell phone, she is a Physical Therapist, I handle public relations at a physical therapy company.  I got pregnant with my second child and she did 6 months later. So we have resumed a friendship and have play dates whenever our schedule and kids' health allows it. 

Then last weekend, I went to her daughter's first year birthday party. As I drove home I was thinking about the party and how my kids were playing with her kids.  Who knew that this was all going to transpire..I am so happy that we are apart of each others lives again and I'm able to share these special moments with her.  We may not be the BFFs that we were in high school, but she knows apart of me that no one else will ever know and that makes this unexplainable bond between each other. So to me, I'm still the pea and she is still the carrot.