Here It Goes

So here I am starting this blog and wondering if this is really the thing for me to do.  I LOVE to read my friend's blogs and really get to know them better than just what we discuss on play dates at the park,  and I have met a beautiful photographer/farmer that I adore and wish I could be.  I get to see other's beautiful homes and dream what I might be able to do in my own home.   I get to see what makes others creative and great and fabulous and find all sorts of things that I love.  Now you might think I spend hours reading other's blogs, but I don’t, just when it is quiet or I need an escape.  It is like picking up a short story or a novel and reading a single chapter.  The only problem is sometimes, just sometimes, you wind up reading the whole novel because it is just that delicious. 

I think I am just trying to find my own voice and tell my own story.  We will see what happens.  Are you ready?  Here it goes.

A little bit about me might be necessary; I can expand later on the details.  I am my high school sweetheart's wife and a mother, and so many other titles that I can't fit them in here.  We fit the all American mold which to me is not always as cute as others may think.  He was the football player; I was the cheerleader.  I am a teacher; he works for the city.  I have a boy and a girl, a mini-van, a house with a small garden, and we are waiting to find the perfect pet and dreaming of our dream house. 

I am an English teacher by career choice, and a stay-at-home mom because it is what is best for us.  I do love it, and I know that I will miss it when I return to teaching.   Writing this blog will hopefully improve my writing habits and my voice…..maybe I will learn something that I can teach my kids (students).

"Promise on Us" has always been a saying my husband and I have said to each other.

 It is asked when he thinks he is being funny, and I think he is not. 

Him:  "I just ran over so-and-so's bike."

Me:  "Seriously."

Him:  "Yeah, so and so didn't pick it up."

ME:  "Really?"

Him:  "Yeah"

Me:  "Seriously?......Promise on Us."

Him:  Smile, smirk, laugh, "No!  But so-and-so should have picked up the bike."

It is said when something serious has happened, and I can't or don't want to believe it.

Him:  So and so was hurt today at work.

Me:  Promise on us

Him: Yes.

It is the proof of trust and loyalty and all the things we are together.   I can't remember the first time we said it, or who said it first, but it has always been that special thing between us.  It might be said once a year or five times a month.  It is just our thing.