It's funny. I just wrote the title of this post while sitting in the living room with the family and I had to get up and leave to retreat to the silence of my room, as I write about No Mas Silence. I need the quiet retreat because I need to really think about how I want to frame my words explaining why I am getting louder. To put it simply, I have finally found my voice. After years (14 now to be exact) of trying to find my voice online and letting plenty of other people do it for me, I finally said No Mas late last year. No Mas to caring if I lose campaigns because companies don't like my language, or my politics, or heaven forbid, ME. No mas to caring if people unfriend me on facebook because I support the 2nd Amendment. No mas to caring how many online friends or followers or likers I have. Maybe 40 finally caught up with me. Or maybe my beliefs became more important than my "popularity". Or maybe I just realized that after 14 years at this, my internet life really is a "jobby" (a hobby meets job). And a jobby is not worth the loss of my true voice. Whatever it was that pushed me over the edge, I am grateful. In the last few months you may have noticed I ...
Sometimes Being a Mom Sucks
If you have teens, or have had them, you may be able to relate to why I am up at midnight unable to sleep, no grown up in my life to share this moment with right now so I instead will turn my thoughts to the random abyss I call cyberspace. Teens suck. Teens suck because no matter how many times we assure them that we have been there, right there in their shoes, they feel the need to argue about the differences in our time/space realities. How we could not possibly have experiences similar to theirs when we grew up pre-Internet, pre cell phones, in a time and place where kids got warnings for things instead of adult consequences. And that part is true. Things were different for us but there are still basic adolescent experiences that transcend most time/space warps. They suck because they refuse to believe that when we say no to things or put limitations around things, it isn't because we don't trust them or we are strict or we just want to keep them from growing up. And they suck because, really? That last part IS true. But mostly it's because we want to protect them. Becoming an adult is not all its cracked up to be. It brings harsh realities and tough choices and ...
Dallas Fort Worth Itinerary | I Left My Heart In Texas
Last November, Connor and I took off for a fabulous 3 day weekend for a Dallas Fort Worth itinerary. I wanted to wait and tell y'all about it because I had such a wonderful time that I didn't want this story to get lost in the holiday noise. If you have yet to visit the Dallas/Fort Worth area I hope that as you are planning your 2013 adventures, a trip to this area of TX lands on your map after this post. Fortunately a lot of friends attended this same trip with us, so for some of the details I will link you over to their posts. Our trip started off at the Omni in Dallas for the Family Travel Conference. I was really impressed with all the cool little features in the Omni rooms. During the conference, Connor snuck off down the street to the Old Red Museum. He loved it. We visited the Dallas Zoo one night for dinner. The food was lovely and we got some cool closeups of the elephants and the penguins. But the real star of the that trip was actually the Galleria Mall where Connor had a ball playing like a little kid. While we loved Dallas, Fort Worth is really the area that stole our heart. Really, we have met with plenty of CVB's (Convention and Visitors Bureaus) in our ...
My Hope For 2013 Simplified
And that is all I have to say about that Hope you have a wonderful, safe New Years and a very likeable 2013 ...
My Holiday Wish For You
I wish for you a 2013 full of the harmony, peace, love, joy and amazement at the possibilities that each and every ordinary day holds for us. I wish for you 365 days of amazing examples of what we are capable of accomplishing just like this. Thanks for sharing this Kristin. It is exactly what I needed! ...