You Can't Make This Shit Up!

The past few years of my life I have been "journaling" in a very different format. I have been updating my eldest daughter's Caring Bridge web page. Maryah battled Ewings Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer, for just over six years. She was diagnosed by her pediatrician January 5, 2004 when she was just nine years old. Maryah won her battle with cancer a week after her sixteenth birthday and she passed away in my arms on the morning of May 15, 2010. The journaling wasn't the same. It was too hard to continue to be "proper" and full of the age old cliche's which everyone expects from a parent with a child who has passed. 


I have been threatening to write a book for years and I swore to baby Jesus that the name of my book would be "You Can't Make This Shit Up!" That is what my life has been from a young age on...you simply can't make this shit up...the good, the bad and the random (as a dear friend/sister and fellow blogger says). 


I am greatly satisfied to have finally joined the world of blogging after long months of contemplation. I am equally as satisfied that I put together some random template that is a little cheesy (after seeing the quality designs that are out there) and that I haven't ripped my hair out, had an anxiety attack or a small fit because I started posting before having this shit exactly as I want it. I am a bit of a control freak and possibly have a tish of OCD. Not sure, but I think it's possible.


I think it's going to be a hell of a lot of fun to be real, to be myself and to blog on the things that happen in my day-to-day life without having to make sure I am being politically correct because 1000 people a day from all over the world, whom I don't even know are reading and judging my every word. I can swear, I can talk about the realities of life as a mom of all these friggen kids and the wife to a god damn perfect husband...he makes me sort of ill some days!


There is so much more to come and I cannot wait to share and to continue reading blogs of other fun moms I know and have found in this fantastic world of blogging. 


So...here is where we begin. To follow or not to follow...I hope you come along for the ride. It's bound to give you some laughs!