hello again

Hi there. 

I haven't posted a blog in over 10 days. I've been meaning to. Plenty of blog worthy things have happened to me. Well funny things I think would entertain you. Or at least make you smile. Laugh maybe.

I just, well, theres no good excuse. I've just been, well, overwhelmed lately. 

I have my hands in too many pots I guess you could say.

Trying to make money from home. Trying to be creative. Trying to make money being creative. Trying to go to school. Trying to simplify my life. Trying to learn photography. Trying to learn photoshop. Trying to make this blog awesome. 

Trying to be a good wife. Trying to be a good mom. Trying to follow Jesus with all my heart. 

Some of these things are way more important than others. I find myself putting more time in to some less important things and less into the more important things. 

This is because I have no decent schedule. My time floats by all willy nilly. I need a daily schedule badly. I need to figure out how much time I should spend on each thing I want to do daily, and stick to it. 

I have more troubling problems that compound this.

I am lazy. 

I am a procrastinator.

I start many things and finish few.

I am easily overwhelmed. 

When I'm overwhelmed I tend to hide. From everything. Taking a break at first seems refreshing. Then as the says go by, I get more worried. I need to start again. But I'm starting to get overwhelmed cause I missed too many days. Then the days just add up and starting again at all seems harder than starting over. 

I'm not trying to whine. I've been blessed beyond recognition. Pretty much everything I've said is my fault. 

 I guess I'm just telling you why.

And I'm sorry. It's hard getting back in the habit. 

And I promise to try better. 

<3MaryAnne

ps- Thx to those that sent me messages of concern. I'm ok. Just a little lost right now. 

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Check out my guest post!

My friend Heather recently asked me to guest post for her blog. She wanted me to do so because she was going to be welcoming home her husband from his first deployment. I was more than happy to help her out.

Her blog is He Wears Combat Boots, I Wear Stilettos and I highly recommend it! She is a personal friend of mine and she is one of the sweetest people I know. She blogs about everything from her 30 day challenge, to her obsession with Army Wives :), and from her passion about current events that affect her life and the lives of many, to her playlist of songs for deployment.

So here is my guest post. It's full of drama and intrigue! Oh who am I kidding, it's just full of drama. Drama I can expand on if you're interested! Go check it out! :D Tell me what you think here! And tell Heather what you think there! She is such a beautiful sweetheart and I'm so glad she and her hubs and their little girl are back together again. Check out their super sweet reunion pic and tell me you can resist visting her blog. You can't! It's impossible! ;)

<3tprm

Hello again bloggy world! Long time, no see.

I'm Alive! (for all of you KISS fans out there :P)

So I haven't posted anything new in about a week or so. And I know all (2) of you have just been heart sick over the depravation and lack of my daily amazing posts ;).

I guess my absence was due to bloggy overload, sick kids (Gunner had his very first stomach virus! Yay! Barf.), training for my new job, interviewing for another, my new photography class, adding more items to my Etsy shop, self teaching photoshop to my already overloaded brain, helping a new, great friend develop parts of her new website for mommies (Check it out here: The Joy of Giving Birth -I will be posting more about this wonderful site later :), and so on and so forth. So needless to say, I've been busy. And kinda burnt out. And the thought of having to blog on top of it made me want to curl up in a ball and hide.

You see, I am very lazy. So all of this new found motivation and momentum has really got me going against my natural procrastinate-y sensibilities. Posting a daily blog isn't that complicated, so you may be thinking, what's the big deal? And it's not a big deal. I guess you can say that doing one more thing this past week aka writing a blog post that has effort, humor, thought, wit, etc put into it (you see, even though I am a lazy sod, I am a sight perfectionist and I want this blog to be quality, not just quantity. Not just empty, lazy, weak posts just for the sake of posting) was basically the straw that broke this mommy's back.

So that's about it. I have a new resolve at the moment to not let myself become overwhelmed. And while I will honestly try to post great things everyday, forgive me if you see gaps now and again. I promise to never abandon you! :) I love all of my sweet readers and I really appreciate you for coming and reading about this little mommy's life. I love all of your comments, and I hope that we can stick it out together, it being life.

All of you procrasitantors, I encourage you to visit this blog: Recovering Lazyholic and her website: RecoveringLazyholic.com
She is truly a woman after my own heart and I love her blog and website so much. I love what she is trying to do with her life and lazy tendencies, and I am so there with her. :)


Now with that out of the way, I can tell you I do have a ton of stuff I need to post, lots of goings on happening around here. So to make up for my abscence, I'll be posting a pants load today and tomorrow!
So stick around.

I promise to.

<3

(Oh and I know I owe 3 more open letters, and I have them in mind. But I'm taking a break from them for now. They are really important to me and I want to get them right :))