Hectic November

I guess I should write something again. I’ve been so busy lately with the VEAP Holiday Benefit. Today I am processing credit cards and need a little break from all those numbers. The event was great. Jearlyn Steele, Cate Fierro, Metro Retro and Charmin Michelle all did a wonderful job performing for our guests. Channel 5 sportscaster Joe Schmitt also did a wonderful job. We were happy to see the great turn out!

I’m still tired from it. It doesn’t help that after working some 16+ hours that day I got three hours of sleep before we headed off to Nebraska to pick up Braden. That meant 13+ hours of travel time all in one day, there and back. I still haven’t recovered. I’m getting old! Which means, I am once again “Momma Kelly” for the next two weeks. We are planning on buying a Christmas tree while Braden is here so he can help decorate it. That should be a fun family activity. We are also going to try to hit up the Holidazzle parade. I bet he’d love to see all those fantastic lights. The next two weeks should lead to some good post material.

On our drive we started talking about the wedding again. After completing the benefit it is time to work on planning the wedding, which is going to be almost as big. We need to get our final guest list from Phillip’s parents and we can start sending out save the date cards. I’ve decided to design all my own stuff. I figured I should put those InDesign skills to use! And it will save us money.

Anyway, I guess I should get back to the processing.

Suddenly Inspired

After lunch I partook in one of my random poking around breaks. This is a daily effort to avoid returning to actual necessary office tasks. This past week on Facebook I had been noticing a friend’s blog competition with her husband to see who can get the most followers. So I decided to check out her posts and followed her link.

While on her site I noticed that in her list of favorite blogs was one entitled, ‘Suddenly Mommy’.
This intrigued me, could it be a blog related to my life? Is someone out there writing about her challenges? So I clicked on it. Yes, yes it was a blog that related to my life. She starting dating her husband when his son was 1.5 years old (me too!), they dated a year and a half and got married (me too!), craziness. We are not quite married yet, nor am I pregnant, but we are very similar nonetheless.

So I decided I might just end up stalking this complete stranger and see how life treats her, how she deals with things and what I can learn. Or maybe, I’ll be obsessed a few days and forget about it, most likely. I’ve thought about doing a blog myself, privately for my own review or maybe share it with a few people. I thought about discussing the trials of what it’s like to suddenly become a mom. There are unique challenges, joys and emotions that come with it. Most people don’t understand you unless they have been there. Maybe my record can bring light to others about this life change than our parent’s didn’t face and most of our friends wouldn’t consider.

I might have just been inspired to start another small project I won’t keep up with or finish…but in the meantime it’s an effort to waste time that I think is fabulous. So for all the suddenly mommy’s wanting to waste a few minutes here and there, I present the blog (or the return to blogging) of a complete stranger (or not as the case will probably be) that lives somewhere in Minnesota.