Writer's Workshop: Beachy Attire

Mama Kat's always entertaining Writer's Workshop! Thank You Kat for giving me something to look forward to on Thursdays!!!

This week's Prompts:

1.) Share a love letter.

2.) Memorial Day Weekend plans?? Do share!

3.) List ten things you are currently sick of.

4.) Put an outfit together using pictures you found online and show us what you'd LIKE to be wearing today.

5.) What have you been too busy to pay attention to?

Well..... to answer #2 I'm headed to the BEACH for Memorial Day!!!!!! Wanna know more? Hop on over to this post and find out!

So #4. Put an outfit together using pictures you found online and show us what you'd LIKE to be wearing today.

I would LIKE to be wearing this Cotton Bonbon Dress from J Crew.

Isn't the description from the site cute:

"A sweet, summery confection in our signature soft cotton piqué, featuring a tiered ruffle skirt in cotton lawn and delicate picot-edged cotton-lawn trim around the neckline and arm opening."

I'm even in love with these Nutmeg Elodie vachetta flat sandals!

"Introducing Elodie—the season's "It" sandal in Italian vachetta leather (it develops a beautiful, honeyed patina over time), with a flattering crisscross design. We'll be wearing ours with everything. 5/8 harness buckle. Vachetta-leather footbed. Man-made sole. Made in Italy. Half sizes order up."

I'm in love with this sandals.... Darn Mama Kat! If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have known about them! lol Just kidding! I'm glad I do :)

And IF I had to only pick an accessory I'd love to be wearing instead of a whole outfit.... I would have to go with a Southern Proper Belle Headband!

Too Cute!!!

That's enough shopping for me for tonight! Go by Mama Kat's Mama's Losin It blog and find out what prompt everyone else chose!

Sweeeet Dreams & Sweet Shoppin!

KK

Writers Workshop: Oh Baby

I looooove having Mama Kat's prompts to give me a boost at the end of the week when I'm starting to run low on energy and my brain stops coming up with blog worthy material! So this week we have a big variety of questions, but ofcourse there are always certain ones that JUMP right off the page at me! Here's Kat's prompts from mama's losin' it for this week:

The Prompts:
1.) Create a video for your blog (vlog) and participate in Tim's "vlogemotions" by talking about an emotion you've felt this week. You can link up here AND link up at Tim's place at Fort Thompson on Thursday. That's right...you have my permission to double dip.
2.) Do you want a baby?
3.) Who got in big trouble this week?
4.) Write a poem for your mother.
5.) Time for a trip? Where are you headed this summer?...Or where would you go if you COULD.

I'm certainly not a video blogger... me doing public speaking? Yeah... we'll work on that! Maybe some time soon I'll guts up and make that happen, but not today!

No one got in trouble this week and though I love my mother my creativity is on hiatus... therefore #2 win this time.

Do I want a baby? Did you say do I want to wake up every morning to crying that seems unmanagable, to sticky hands and crayon murals on the walls? Do I want to have to change smelly, stinky diapers, make time to puree carrots only to have it all flung at my head? Do I want to wake up at 3am to little knocks on the bedroom door begging to let she and puppy sleep with mommy and daddy? Do I want to kiss booboos and cut the crust off of every sandwich I make until I'm 45? Do I want the feeling of wanting to deck a 5 yr old little kid when they are the cause of the hurt feelings that I hear about on the ride home? Do i want to fall asleep in a chair waiting on their friends to drop them off 2 hrs after curfew? Do I want to have to take pictures the day they go to junior prom and look way too grown up to even bare?

Nah.. Not really.
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What?
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Expected a different answer?
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Wait... YES! I want a baby. Are you crazy?! Better yet do you think I'm crazy??? Ofcourse I want kids. I want four and I want to adopt or foster or whatever God sees fit and knows I can take on! I love children. I want babies for all the joy that they bring into this world. I do want my own babies, and one day hopefully that dream will come true.

All in good time! I'm not rushing my life. Life is great! I'm happy, we're happy, life is moving smoothly as planned :) *Knock on Wood!!!!!*

So even though I want a baby today.. don't mean it's going to be happening today! Or even this year just so were clear! :)

To all the mommies reading this I hope you're enjoying your sweet little blessings every day. The ones that I've had the opportunity of meeting thru your photos and stories are soooo beyond sweet and precious! Keep them safe and very well loved! Luckly children you have to have such beautiful amazing moms! Happy Early Mothers day girls!

Writer's Workshop: Big Bucks

I have about 45 minutes until Thursday is over and I can't post my writers workshop anymore!! Since I'm AWAKE and well.. I'm honestly not ready for bed yet.. I think I'm gunna get going on my workshop this week! :)

Writer's Workshop from Mama Kat is so much Fun [with a capital F!] everything week. I'm in such a great mood today with Asher having been born-- this makes picking a happy prompt an easy choice!

Here are this weeks prompts:

1.) If I sent you four hundred dollars today what is ONE thing you would spend it on and why. ps I want my change.

2.) What are your kids talking about?

3.) Tell us about a local news story that's all the buzz right now in your neck of the woods.

4.) Share some blogging advice.

5.) Tell us about that time at the playground when that thing happened.

If Miss Kat was sweet enough to send Four Benjamins my way... I would have to make a list of what in the world to do with it of course!! I can't make that sort of decision that quickly! lol

Options

$249.99 on a Nintendo Wii Console

OR

$89.99 Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 for just $89.99, or w/ Premiere Elements 7 for $149.99

If you're looking to buy Photoshop Elements do it now before April 23 here to Adobe and buy it! They have discounted it from $129! (Might be buying this even IF my check from Mama Kat doesn't show up!)
OR

I would send all $400 to Compassion International to help out kids all over this world, who to tell you the truth need it a whole lot more than I need to play on Wii or to perfect my really really not-so-terrific photos I take.

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Angie who is Audrey Caroline's Mommy over at Bring the Rain is leaving SOON to go on a mission trip with Compassion, and she's got me thinking about sponsoring at least one child.

Hmmm.... We shall see what comes of this. Thanks Mama Kat for gettin' me thinkin! lol
Amazing how these silly things can manifest into something else isn't it?

Okay, So go over to Kat's and find out what prompt other people chose this week!
KK

Writers Workshop: Riding in the Rain

The Prompts:
1.) Somebody I'm praying for....
2.) I don't believe in prayer because...
3.) What are you putting off right now?
4.) You can go back to your childhood for one day. What day and age do you choose?
5.) Your friend tells you he can pick up any girl at the bar, no matter what he says. You bet him $100 he can't. Create the world's worst pick up line and send your friend off into the crowd. What happens?

Like Mama Kat, i too have been praying for Stellan. I've prayed for this sweet little boy to be healed my God all week, & every time I get on up date from MckMama on my cell via Twitter my heart stops for a few seconds while I quickly read her updates and pray for the "..." to be continues with something good. Small update- Stellan is going in to surgery to have a line put in. His heart has stopped pumping blood efficiently to the rest of his body, so they are uncertain whether they will put in a PICC line, central line, or a J line. Please continue you praying! Pray works-- whether its hard to understand why "all prayers aren't answered," God hears ever single one and will continue to give us the thigns in our lives that we need as long as we turn to Him.

Okay... So.... since I've already been prayin for Stellan... I pick...
4.) You can go back to your childhood for one day. What day and age do you choose?

I know exactly what day I would pick. I was around 7 years old I would say, and it was the middle of November. I was up in the Ozarks with my family on vacation for Thanksgiving, and everything was perfect. Growing up there was no other place as magically as my families ranch. Nothing in the world could compare to the smell of the mequite wood burning in the fire place, the sweetness coming from the fresh chocolate chip cookies that were cooling in the kitchen, and the crispness in the air when I would run out side to meet my brothers and dad as they came in from hunting. I loved it. I was at ease in the woods. I was home to me. A safe place for all the other things that were going on back in Atlanta.

I had grown up learning everything I know about the woods from my Dad, who learned everything he knows from his Dad, who had learned everything he knew from His Dad... we had a lot of woods-savy men in our family! :) Anyways...

On this one specific afternoon that will always stay in my mind vividly til the day I die, my Dad and I decided to go on a horseback ride, just the two of us. I loved riding! My dad was never afraid to let me try things, and had me riding horses since I was 6 months old, and could barely sit up. I'd beg and beg to ride because it was "Our Thing" to do together. My mom rides, and some do my brothers, and nephews, and cousins and all.... but they just don't get it they way my daddy and I do.

Well on this cloudy afternoon, I can remember hearing the *clack- clack--clack-clack* noise of my father's boots on the 100 year old wood-plank floor heading toward my bedroom. He ducked his head in and said, "Ready?" and just smiled a big grin at me. I shook my head yes and jumped of the bed to grab my boots and search for my camo jacket. (Side note: I never liked wearing my own jacket-- I always wanted to wear my mom's camo jacket enough though it was too big for me.) I yanked it out of the deep cedar closet and swished my arms quickly into it; taking a deep inhale of the cedar smell as it escaped from where the door had been holding it captive. I ran out the door skinny, black front door trying to catch up to my dad as he was already making his way down the flat rock path to wear Blue, my dad's beautiful majestic horse stood. He was without a doubt the most gorgeous horse you'll ever see-- and he was truly blue! Well.. okay, he was a daple grey, but his coloring had a blue tint. He was so gentle and sweet and could always go whatever distance we wanted to ride.

My dad hopped on- he was always very quick; as if it was effortless-- and put his left hand out for me to grab on. I slid my left foot into the stirup, and pushed off the slick grass below me. I flipped my right leg on over and settled in on the warm blanket that lay behind my fathers sattle. The older I got the less often I rode with him. I had my own horses by now, Nancy and Sparkles, but on this day we rode together. -- We waved to my mom then took off toward the South. I hadn't remember every detail, because it felt like a fairytale.

I remember the mist that starting floating down from the tops of the trees and the fog that was on the ground. I can remember putting my hands in my dad's jacket pockets to keep them warm while we rode along through the treees, creating our on paths as we went. He's always had a sense of direction that I wish I had even an ounce of, and could take us roaming through the woods to run up deer, and turkeys and still get us back to the main road without a sweat. As we rode we talking about the ranch and how some day it could all be mine if I loved it enough, and understood how much it takes to be responsible for all the animals that live there. We talked about my Grandpa and the thigns he had taught my dad, and even talked about how we wished mom had come with us, but we were glad we didn't actually have to worry about anyone keeping up with us because Blue was ofcourse better than any of the other horses.

All of asudden the light mist that tickled my face as it hit, turned to a drizzle.. and then to a heavy stram of rain! it was too late... we were way too far from the house to even care how drenched we were. We both just died laughing. It was beautiful out there. It was coming down hard, but as I peered out from under the hood of my jacket i could see everything in the woods clearly. It was like a painting that could never be duplicated. I knew it was a momently to be thankful for. A moment that I was sharing with just him, and I could tell he was proud I was riding with him, not any of the boys.

He ran Blue the rest of the way home. He was a little worried in might start lightening, but I wasn't scared. I remember being so drenched that my jeans were so stiff and heavy from the rain weighing them down. It was awesome though.---- To this day I love riding in the rain. There is something magical about it that you only know if you've been there.

That's the memory and day that I would pick. That day of being daddy's little girl, spending time together... riding in the rain.

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Sorry for such a long story, but I couldn't leave out details! Go on over to MamaKat's to see what prompts others choose this week!

~lots of love~

KK

Writer's Workshop:Pipe Dreams

***Disclaimer:If you are family and you aren't in the mood to have a twist to your day that is good/scary then don't read today! I write what I feel--- so I'm atleast tryin to warn u!***

I'm late writing... yeah so? Atleast I'm tryin to blog a little , peeps! I'm so off on my blogtiming lately its a little ridiculous, but hopefully MamaKat will forgive me and still accept my lil' post!

On with it shall we? Time for me to pick.....

The Prompts:
1.) I used to think...
2.) List ten things you can do in three minutes.
3.) Describe a time you allowed your child to do something that you normally would not let slide.
4.) I want to become friends with...
5.) What are you currently fascinated with?

I pick: 1.) I use to think... that I wanted to get married right out of college. Now I realize I was crazy! I've been out a year already, and life still hasn't settled down much yet! I've now changed it to "..in my twenties." :) More feasible! I still am very much ready to start a family, but it doesn't have to be before I turn 23! haha

I use to think... that being the baby of the family was horrible!! Now I realize I can learn from everyone else, and that it's okay that everyone is protective over me. They love me and just want the best for me.

I use to think... I wanted ONLY biological kids when I grew up. Now I have a desire to adopt also. I've learned that my heart has a larger desire than a 17yr old could understand before! ( God shows us things in life when we're ready--- He knows what we can handle pretty well, dosn't he?)

I use to think...(and this is a big one).. That ever seeing Chase again was just a pipe dream. A fantastic hope that was nearly impossible to ever have come true. Now I know I was wrong! One day that will be a dream come true, and maybe soon even! *See next blog to understand more details*

Okay... that's all! What sort of things did y'all use to think???????
Love y'all,

Last Weeks Writer's Workshop

Since I was in NewYork last week I completly missed out on MamaKat's Writer's Workshop, and although I've never tried to play "catch up" on a workshop before I spotted a Prompt that I wanted to write about... It leads in to a prompt for this week actually (kinda underlining, but if you know me... you'll understand)

Here were the prompts:
The Prompts:
1.) Discuss an intense game of Pictionary that you spent most of Saturday night arguing with your family about, only to log in to your email account two days later to find 35 emails between said family regarding aformentioned game and rules.
2.) Tell about a time you hurt somebody that still bothers you to this day.
3.) The one that got away....spill it.
4.) What inspired you? Write about a time when you were impassioned to write.
5.) What happened in the last year? Write about something you can do now that you couldn't do a year ago.

I pick: #5. What happend in the last year? Write about something you can do now that you couldn't do a year ago?

A year ago THIS WEEK, I was on Spring Break in Arizonia with my parents and Ankoo enjoying the warmth and trying to relax before finishing up my final semester in college. We decided to take a ride over to the Red Rock Mountains on Mon or Tues (cant remember for sure) and got a call from one of my mom's siblings informing us that BOTH of my grandparents had been rushed to the hospital in ambulences. My Grams had gone in to a diabetic coma, and my granddaddy was so sick from pnemonia ,unbeknown to all of us, that he was in bed unresponsive as well. It was so scary to be so far away and feel helpless. I hated it. My first response was panic.. that quickly turned to anger. I wanted to go HOME. That very instant. Not in a few days. Not at the end of the week. I wanted to be with them to comfort them right then!............ I didn't get my way... We waited... We got updates constantly, and my Granddaddy was released from the hospital, but the long 9 months that followed were life defining for my Grandma.

I've written about her nearly year-long struggle in and out of the hospital and coming so near to death that our family was called in to say goodbye and to "Let her go peacefully."

So thankful God is in control, NOT doctors! Because She is her today, and well! Beyond well! Being as sick as she was she is physically weaker, but is spiritually stronger. She's an Olguin Women... She's not going dow without a fight! :)

So what can I do now that I couldn't fully do a year ago, you ask??? I can trust the Lord without any doubt at all-- period. It is that simple. Yes indeedy! Anyone that tries to tell me, "It just not that easy to hand things over to Him!" is not really trying to. It is hard, but have faith in the truths that you know- that's the best way I know how to say it. I sat in that hospital room with streams of tears rolling down my cheeks and drenching my shirt, with a smile on my face while I held a breathing mask up for my sweet,beautiful Grandmother so she could breathe even when she had no idea what was going on. I never saw the light go out in her- I heard doctors say, "There is no hope" and speak of no chance of her ever breathing on her own.... while I watched her need for assisted breathing to decrease, and decrease, and decrease!!! She is a fearless- Godly women who I am going to be like. I'm not saying I am already, but I am going to strive to leave the legacy behind me that she will SOMEDAY have to leave behind as well.

Today, My grandparents live 2.5 minutes from my house, all on their own and in the best health possible for their age. They have daily struggles, but they are living, and loving. And I'm continuing to learn more about my own personal strength to be a strong rock and a godly, supportive women in my walk with Him.

Yes I accept my assignment :)

Yay for Mama Kat! Her assignments always bring up such wonderful... and sometimes repressed memories! *grin*

Prompts this week:
1.) Write a limerick.
2.) Normal is...
3.) Describe a memorable camping experience.
4.) What's the best thing that has happened this week?
5.) Did you have a childhood hideout? Where? Describe it.
6.) Words that hurt me.

In the words of one of my best friends, " I am NOT NORMAL!!!!..... I'm regular! :) " I love her dearly for her oddness and regularness of course!

Moving on- I pick.....

1.) Write a Limerick:

A.

There once girl name Kaylan.

She chose to vote for Palin.

Sorry to say, she certainly didn't get her way.

So they both ran off a wailin'.

B.

There once was a girl name Boo.

She loved to yodel, "Youu Whooo!"

A boy she did spot; Oh no they got caught,

Playin in mud at the Zoo!

C.

Why don't I try to be Normal.

Or Maybe Even just Formal?

Oh No, that's not Me! You get what you See!

A beaut who has no signs of a mormal!

It's fun being goofy in the morning--Definitely has brightened up my day!

Definition of mormal -for those who know i searched long and hard for a word to go w/formal!

6.) Words that hurt me.

"Yeah, you look fine.. I guess. (Without glancing my direction)"

I realize the absurdity of caring about looks, so let me first say these words don't bother me because I care sooooooo much about my looks, I'm a pretty low-maintenance person when it comes to my daily routine. I'm not a blow dryer type of girl. I let my hair air-dry in the car on the way to work, pull a brush through it as I pull into a parking space and put on my makeup as I try not to glide through too many almost-red-lights. I get hurt by the words "Yeah, you look fine I guess," because it feels like someone is saying I don't care- you look just the same as usual, blah. No worse than usual I guess. It's a "i dont wanna take the time to look- who cares!" respsonse. I don't want a WOW response, all I want from a responder to my question is a teensy clear moving of eyeballs in my general eyeball direction, a 5 second pause to look at me, then a little smiling with the eyes as I love to call it that says ,"Yes, of course you look great!" Hmm... I hope I'm getting my point across-lol- I hope other women have been there before and actually understand me! It's that loving way a person looks at you and says I'm glad your mine ever time I look at u- sans actual words!
I'm in for a life time of heartache boys and girls-- I have way to high of romantic standards and I don't even know where they came from! I told y'all I loved Beauty and the Beast too much as a young child! Cursed for life!..... So be it! :)

Keep havin' a pleasant Thursday!

Writer's Workshop #1

This is my first attempt at MamaKat's Writer's Workshop so I'm gunna go do a little mental dance and decide from the Prompts provided!

The Prompts:

1.) If you were starring on American Idol TONIGHT and HAD to sing, what song would you choose and why.
2.) Take a picture of yourself right this minute without primping and explain to us why it is you have not washed your hair today.
3.) I just asked Pat to help me with a writing prompt so here's his: "What do you think about the NBA All Star game"...blech.
4.) What's your number one pet peeve? Develop a punishment for anyone caught in the act.
5.) Write about something mean you did to a sibling growing up.

My Picks... I'm going with #2 AND #1 because I only know about football, and i have OLDER siblings so they tortured Me!
Number DOS.

I'm at work, so this was taken quickly in my office! The weird blue light is from the windows being tinted and bright sunshine bursting thru for a brief moment!

I DID however wake up at 5:30am.. okay fine I got out of bed at 6(late as usual!) and shower and wash my hair! It looks mightily FLUFFY today because I had no time to dry it...

To be honest I took 7 pictures before this to get me hair to look normal and not like a big 80s wig.. but I didn't primp!! I pinkie promise!
Moving on....

Numero 1.
I thought and pondered and panicked and questioned all yesterday evening about what song I would sing if put in front of Randy, Kara, Paula, and Simon. I wondered, " What song would they think was "ME"? What would be as they say "appropriate for your age"?"

They strongly dislike songs that are too old for you as in I could never do a song from the 90s, and would definitely question that I was only 12 in 1999.. so that crossed out a good number of choices floating in my head, aka Edwin McCain "I'll Be." I know he's a guy-- I actually know a guy who Edwin was his stand-in at a bar in Colorado on nights when he took off, gotta love it-- but a lot of people take songs from the opposite gender and change them up a bit to fit them! Just think it would be a good audition or first performance song, but nope! I'll Be

Then I really like Taylor Swift's "Should've Said No"-- GREAT range in the song, always good to showcase the range of voice :), and it's "age appropriate. Problem is it would be unbelievable for ME to sing that in front of Thousands of people on stage on the first LIVE broadcast w/ music and the backup singers. I just KNOW (how do I know? I just do. Trust me.Seriously people) Paula would be up dancing to my voice if I performed this song. Too bad it's not a great audition song. Despite my love of it.. it would have to wait til Hollywood Week. Should've Said No

And so... I landed out Leona Lewis' "I Will Be." Fantastical Range-Would be great acapela- Age appropriate- Discovered my Simon himself-- It's the perfect song! If it's not playing on my page YET travel your way to the bottom of my page and click on it! Let me know what ya think!! Oh, and No, I will never be tapping myself singing this song for y'alls listening pleasure! Haha. I'm not a gluten for punishment!!

Soooo..... which prompt are you pickin' today?? If you haven't yet, but want to write too go to Mama's Losin' It and visit Kat every Wednsday to get the promps and then link up on her page on Thursday!

Hope y'all enjoyed my use of my funny bone today!

Smile all Day and see how many people smile back while you're out today!!!!