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iPhoneography: Father’s Day Recap

Posted on June 18, 2013 by LaShawn

Cdub is anitphoto. But it’s easier to get him to take one if I just use my iPhone. So I took the chance and only used my iPhone on Father’s Day. A little iphoneography experiment if you will…..

Father’s Day was Sunday and CDub had a grand time. Starting Saturday. He played golf ALL DAY. Sunday morning, he woke up to breakfast in bed.

At lunch time, we headed out to Houston’s. My favorite restaurant, and Cub’s too. We hadn’t been with Pookah in tow since he was about one. When he was still eating baby food. So, after having learned the hard way about eating out. I asked a LOT of questions before ANYTHING came to the table. Luckily for us, we had an awesome waitress who listened to my concerns and then interrogated the kitchen until we found out everything we could about how the meals were prepared. Did you know that the Hawaiian Steak at Houston’s is marinated in soy sauce? And soy sauce has wheat in it? It would have never occurred to me to think about the marinade. But it occurred to my waitress. So basically, they made Pookah a meal from scratch. So Pookah’ s meal came, completely gluten/wheat free. She got a humongous tip for her efforts. We will be back.

I got CDub to sit for these photos. Once. Only once. I had to beg. So sad.

After lunch, we headed over to Lenox Mall to get CDub the rest of his father’s day gift. He wanted shoes. Just shoes. But those shoes….why are good shoes so expensive????

After naptime, we headed out to the park where Pookah and Cdub played baseball, raced, and just got sweaty and hot. Hell, they even got me to do cartwheels and flips and to join in the races.

Afterwards, we found our way to Murellis’ a local ice cream shop. Fun times.

We all collapsed when we got home. Bathtime, bed. It was a good day.

( All photos taken with iphone 5 and edited with VSCOcam app. )

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ABC’s of Blogging

Posted on June 17, 2013 by LaShawn

I was tagged last week to do this post by Cam from Bibs and Baubles. You remember when blogging was just about getting to know each other and not just sponsored posts and getting page views? So today, I’m going back old school, and doing this getting to know you post! Feel free to join in and tag me!

A) Attached or single: Attached! Going on 8 years this August!!!( Hallelujah!)

B) Best Friend: I don’t have one. I have a group. The collective. These are the women who’ve known me since I was 14. I may go for months without talking to one, but if I picked up the phone and said help, they would be there.

C)Cake or Pie: Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake…( in my Rhianna Voice)

D)Day of Choice: Saturday: Because I just like the idea that we have a whole day to do absolutely nothing. Of course, that never happens…

E)Essential Item:Cell Phone. I am lost without my iPhone. Its got my calendar, my schedule, notes, twitter, pinterest, the camera………

F)Favorite Color: I don’t have one. Sad I know

G)Gummy Bears or Worms: Gummy Worms. I like the chewy wiggle…..

H)Hometown: Southeast DC baby!

I)Favorite Indulgence: Reading a book at Starbucks…alone…..

J)January or July: JULY! I love the summer!

K)Kids: One, the Pookah bear. The baby fever has hit, but it’s only hit me. Still waiting on the final word from CDub…..

L)Life isn’t complete without: Coffee.

M)Marriage Date: August 26, 2005

N)Number of brothers/sisters: I have two brothers. One who is older, but adopted( so he came AFTER me.) And my baby brother who is 28.

O)Oranges or Apples: Oranges. I love them.

P)Phobias: I don’t have any….

Q)Quotes: “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing YOU can be.” Maya Angelou

R)Reason’s to Smile: I’m alive.

S)Season of Choice: Summer. It’s hot, it’s time to go to the beach and I can have ice cream everyday….

T)Tag 5 people: you,you you you and …..YOU!

U)Unknown fact about me: I’m actually shy. But my mother taught me how to get around it. No one who meets me would ever suspect that on the inside, I have no desire to talk. That I just want to fade in the background and have no one take notice of me…..

V) Vegetable: Collard Greens. Yes. I said it.

W) Worst Habit: I bite my nails, It’s a habit I’ve never been able to break. Probably has something to do with that shyness…

X) X ray or ultrasound: I’ve had tons of xrays. They are boring. Ultrasounds are usually very exciting.

Y) Your favorite foods: Steak. Medium Well. On the grill, in the oven, in a restaurant, marinated…….

Z)Zodiac sign: Aries.

( I just can’t post without a photo.)

Now it’s YOUR turn!!!

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Wordless Wednesday: In the Backyard

Posted on June 12, 2013 by LaShawn

You know, since we’ve moved here, and the spring has come, every week it seems, there are new flowers popping up all over the yard. And me, being the city girl that I am, don’t know what any of them are. But they sure are pretty….

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Ps. I found out these were Gardenias after I posted a photo on Facebook for my mom. They do smell so good!

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Trying to Find My Way

Posted on June 10, 2013 by LaShawn

I’m tired.

Deep down in my bones, physically, mentally and emotionally tired.

I thought, foolishly it seems, that once I got a REGULAR job like everyone else that my life would be easier. But the joke’s on me. And the answer is noooooo.

I can’t seem to find a rhythm. A routine. I feel like I’m floundering or always struggling to catch up. Things that I used to have time for( but thought I didn’t) like housework, naps, ME time…don’t exsist anymore. I find myself squeezing things into my Saturdays and Sundays which in turn leaves me no time to just…be.

I will say that my new job itself is not the problem. It’s not even a 10th as stressful and as hard as working in Labor and Delivery for 12 hours a day, 3-4 days a week. It’s getting used to( still after 4 months) working Monday through Friday. It was easy when I was single. It was easy when It was just me and CDub. But with Pookah added into the mix…I’m just not keeping up. And on top of the job changing my life around, dealing with the emotional stress of my father being sick and Pookah having multiple trips to the ER/Dr since January has just almost broken me.

It’s been stressful. More stressful than I like to admit. I feel like every day, I run out of time. And that I can’t keep up. Can’t keep up with my house, with my husband, with my child, with the day to day operation of my life, with what new med is my father on now, with making sure my mother is taking care of herself, with photography, with my blog….you name it, it’s all fallen by the side of the road while I struggle to keep my head above the water.

I know that this too shall pass, and I know that eventually, I’ll look back on this time and laugh at how dramatic I was. How I thought that I would break under the pressure to get everything done and to be all of the things to everyone in my life.

But for now, while I’m in the thick of it, I can’t find the energy to laugh. I can’t even find the time to expand my lungs and breathe…..

This post was a bit of self indulgence for me. Because I really don’t have the time to post that much anymore. But I found a sliver of time at work, and just typed this up. So if there are spelling errors or something doesn’t make sense, forgive me.