Pinterest the beginnning...

I started bravely now I realize with a maxi dress! it seemed simple enough take a huge piece fabric cut for arms and head use a cincher belt to bring the potato sack in! Sounds simple enough my husband bought me a sewing machine for Christmas so I thought worse case I would need to hem a little. UMM now what started out a long flowing comfy house dress turned into above. the reason being the girl in the long dress was model material well proportioned with average upper body (clear throat here) get my drift? so what looked beautiful on her looked more like a mumu and 20 more lbs on me. so I found another pin with a tank top attached to a skirt so once again what looks great on a smaller woman would have been too revealing for my taste on me. So I took this old navy long sleeve that I haven't worn in years cut the mumu dress and basically started over I attached the bottom half to this long sleeve shirt cut excess and then needed something in the middle to hide allll that ugly there so once again I went back to pinterest and found a pin for a cincher belt for a little girl lol. I modified to fit my waist of course then actually sewed it to the dress itself and left the last few inches loose with buttons so I could actually get the dress over my head and chest then button the belt in the back. So three pins later this was the result.

this was project number two it was originally a picture of pizza monkey bread. they used real pizza dough which I didn't want to make and a bunt pan which I don't have but my sister in law is gracious enough to be mailing me one of her grandmas now LOL so this is the cheaper version as you can see from the first picture haha! its pretty simple to see ooo let me me add  this I realized I was out of marinara after I cooked it so we dipped in ranch :))

eternity scarf okay seems simple take old flannel pajama bottoms sew the legs together all done! of course not for me has to get complicated. okay so apparently my bottoms aren't big enough so when sewing them together it was too short to double over my head! so I took one leg sewed the ends together then kind of sewed the other leg to the sides of the top loop does that make sense? )) kind of like those parentheses )) hahaha

this hairstyle was a french braid on top of the head it was actually a pinned  youtube video well I have bangs so it of course was more complicated and my hair is thin so it required more bobby pins and do overs. I also added a tiny braid on the side which you can't see in the picture. Regularly my hair is  flat so this curl with a flat iron will fall out in about an hr :) but it was fun looks better on the blonde who did it I think the briad is not as obvious with dark hair but it took about 15 minutes total for me so for the normal person probably five haha :)

well thats it for now but I will be back because I like letting you guys see how this website works for us normal folks and if you think im not normal then how it works for me! I wasn't aware I would be blogging Pinterest so from now on I will show the pin that I am trying to copy and then my results!

Pinterest my new addiction

So it has been a looooooonnnnnng time as usual I have definately found a light hearted reason to blog we have had alot going on in our home that definately has left no time for blogging. I have been trying to get a home baking business up and running,  the holidays, and some issues that required and still require most of my attention. But this morning as I was doing my hair I thought I must share my pinterest experience thus far. I am sure I am really late on this website well because thats how it works with this reclus of a mother and wife. It started with a friend asking me if I had heard of it she knew I was a crafter (attempted) and thought I would enjoy it. So I signed up not expecting too much I had seen some of my friends posting pictures on thier profiles from there and I thought why would I like a bunch of things I can't afford or couldn't create. I assumed this was a site sent to just tease me with the have-nots of life. Once I starting browsing I realized these photos had links to where they came from! AmAzInG :) now I understand people use this for many things but definately my mission from the first pin was to find diy projects or things that looked possible for me, or my husband, or my kids to do ourselves. Now when I say do it myself I mean food hair clothes crafts etc anything that says I am cheap and easy! lol doesn't everyone like cheap and easy? So I will catch you up on my adventures of course nothing turns out exactly how you think it will or is that just me? but none-the-less I definately am hooked :)- read following blog for my projects I have tried to tackle :)

verify!

trying to get my blog verified in a new forum :)) http://www.technorati.com/ HBSXFMHQERYK (code for thier site) lol sorry for the random post!

Keeping it "Real"

warning this blog is not mean't to offend just entertain!
I am a reality tv junkie. Nothing makes me happier on television then to turn that baby on and see two chicks going at it...... cat fighting that is lol. I watched the challenge on MTV yesterday and I have to say taking two washed up 30 somethings that hate each other, making them be partners, and telling them to achieve a joined goal makes for good tv. I enjoy all the facades of Reality TV during the day its court shows, divorce court gives me my daily dose of what not to do when it comes to my marriage. Dr. Phil tells me what to do, and the real housewives.. well.. like I said nothing makes me happier haha. On the weekends I know he is going to kill me but me and the hubz sometimes watch the marathon of teen mom and 16 and pregnant bahaha! Whats worse than being the person who admits in an open forum that she does indeed get her thrills from "real" television? I'll tell you, it is the people who act as tho they are above it. Are you a reality tv hater? Its like you have to pick sides either your over here on the cool side and you know mary jane cussed her husband for hanging out at the hilton too long or your the snob nose who says you can't stand those shows (sercretly hoping mary and her huband work it out). THATS RIGHT I said it! Don't be ashamed! All you haters out there you know on a lazy sunday as your flipping thru the channels all alone you stop on Rock of Love 14!
You may not know thier names or watch on a regular basis but I can not imagine a person who is flipping thru the regular lifetime, home shopping network, or the same law and order marathon (which i like to watch too :)) and you don't stop on the girls rolling down the stairs riping at each others hair that magically never throw a punch. I think not. Thats enteraining television people! I could care less if its real or its not its awesome. This blog is pretty much pointless and spun off of a celebrity this morning saying she couldn't stand reality tv in an intervew and in my book that b is lying hahahaha. Just a confession special for all two of my readers I also love Vampire Diaries which is a high school based show full of mysical creatures, that show is only second to Army Wives basically the only intellegent adult appropriate show i watch.

My numbers keep shrinking

I wish it was pounds I was talking about but sadly I am talking about "friends", you have to love facebook! (the following description has been rewritten to save those who are this tarded from embarassment)

STATUS: No one will ever hold me down :).
7:51

So coming across this as I scroll thru my news feed having nothing better to do with my time I read this, see the comment link, and hmm I think to myself .. I really don't know her that well but what could it hurt... click... I type:

you go girl Ms.Independant :)
8:30

I read all that facebook has to say, liked a few things, left a few good mornings. taking only about an extra minute or so. Getting ready to close my computer (I never shut it down bless its soul)  a little red number 1 pops up on my top bar. YAY! okay maybe I wasn't that excited but we like to see when someone contacts us it is after all the craze of facebook. Click...

what the hell is that suppose to mean...
8:31

hahahahaha I don't know if anyone finds this as humorous as I do but what the hell is right? what was wrong with what I said? what was this person doing? Was she sitting in front of the screen waiting 45 minutes for someone to respond? Baffled and unsure of my response that elusive comment box sits teasing.

umm not sure where the miscommunication is just giving some enthuisastic words
8:33

Confused I see some new posts from others. I read on anticipating what the new response would be... like...like... blink up pops a red number 1

no miscommunication I can tell your being f*ck*ng sarcastic
8:34

Now please someone please tell me how you can tell someone is being sarcastic?  Was this really a situation calling for the dropping of the f bomb? definition sarcasm :implies a subtler form of mockery in which an intended meaning is conveyed obliquely. Okay listen, I can barely tell when someone is being sarcastic in person let alone in text. Not able to contain myself I type back

Not being sarcasticc. your truly talented if you can gain that thru a comment. I was simply telling you its great to not let anyone hold you down, apparently the only thing holding you back is your stupidity :) (sarcastic smile)
8:36

I refresh the page hoping for a response instead I am one friend short lmao! And that people is how you loose friends on facebook!  This is seriously only one of the examples I have of loosing friends due to a comment I have made on facebook.
Believe it or not this happens to me all the time. Maybe it is just me. Have you ever typed a comment where there are like fifty comments above it and you didn't read them before you joined in with a really funny response? I have lost friends that way too haha.
 Are you really going delete me because you posted something on a public forum with a comment box below it? Half the time I am not even being mean.. half lol I am just joking. I take it all in stride I am a homebody if you don't want to see the five hundred pictures of my kids and our back yard I completely understand besides the likelyhood of us crossing paths considering I am in Texas and everyone I know is in the Carolinas is pretty slim.
I  do have good intentions my advice is this, if you have a sense of humor like mine where most of the time even in person people don't really know how to take you,or the urge to voice a real opinion on facebook is too strong... just don't :) haha (sarcastic laugh)
P.S. the sensitivity behind the defensive attitude turns out is because this chick lives with her parents doesn't work and has two kids with no love to call her own. I personally think my words of encouragement were exactly what she needed. Bahahaha (thats my evil laugh)

Procrastination is a B

procrastination have you ever notice that when you know you need to get something done you just don't. Maybe its just me but I have a to do list a mile long and the more I think about it the more I put it off. I blame it partly on the heat here it makes me tired but even if it was 72 outside with nothing to do I have a feeling that laundry needing folded on my bed would still be there. I am getting excited about my best friend and my husband's buddy flying in this coming weekend but I just can't seem to get off my tush and get the much needed chores done to prep for their arrival. I have even considered letting them come in and just realize my home is a pig sty and walk through all the dust in the air due to my lack of motivation. Take today for instants I woke up with the best of intentions I was going to tackle this mess head on. Then my husband came home he stayed here about 3 hours and my reasoning was why would I want to ruin the few hours of tv he was going to get this week by vacuuming in his way. He went back to work. Then Dr. Phil came on with a very intriguing topic this episod,e what would it hurt to sit and watch that? Now I sit here at 8 o'clock not really in the mood to start a late night chore. Procrastination isn't it just the kink in your neck you can't get rid of? I don't think two Advil is going to solve this headache. ooo well there is always tomorrow. I really am going to do it..

fashionably late?

So once again it has taken me months to post and on a very random note my last blog had lots of typos and right here in my corner view is a frickin spell check lol. i am one ditzy woman sometimes :) I really wish I could be more focused I have good intentions when it comes to this blog but I can't seem to find the time or concentration (as in a moment of silence) to sit down and give myself the vent that I most desperately need. So we found a home I will post a picture with this blog. I really love this house I feel more at home here than I did in fayetteville this house is more me :) one level no stairs and CARPET a garage and a privacy fence it doesn't take much to please me or does it? hmm. Home schooling definitely sucks for me it is a self discipline that I think I don't have and requires more patience then I own. I really am excited about Kameran going back to school for his first grade year. Altho we will be doing work during the Summer I'm thankful that the break is here and we will only be covering refreshers to keep him prepared. We have had a good spring/summer so far. We got to go to South Dakota with my husband altho it was for a unfortunate reason we got to spend a week with his family, the boys and I have haven't been there or met most of the people before then. Got to love the military. My sister and brother in law also got to visit which was a wonderful lil vacation to San Antonio they got married :) and we got to go to Sea World with the kids I had a great time! My Mother and Aunt are going to be here in Texas Friday! My birthday is Saturday and Fathers Day is Sunday and I couldn't be more excited to see them and spend some quality time with them. Being in this house of males definitely calls for the over due need with those women whom I love in my life. My father and two of my brothers also may be coming but that is yet to be determined, I'm just happy to see anybody from back home. Thennnn my best friend Ms. Kristen is visiting for the fourth along with my hubby's best friend so that will be a epic visit of course! When I think of all these wonderful times I realize how lucky and blessed I am to get the chance to spend time with such wonderful people. Some little pieces of info Jackson had his first buzz cut recently Brandon was gone almost the entire month of may :( and Kameran got a mock uniform I can't seem to keep him out of lol and I started couponing wish me luck with that! ooo and Jackson tore keys off this new laptop suprise suprise... well I am going to try to post at least twice a week we will see will my flaky self if I can accomplish this goal!

ahh ... life

So it has been over 3 months since I have posted! Man do I have no dedication? LOL Actually I have had no computer because my two year old riped the screen off of my laptop and yes I could have used the small yet capable ipod touch but I was busy checking my email and facebook (my name is Kristina and I am a facebook addict) past that I havent really had time or the patience to sit down and process the past months to put my life into a blog. Still not sure if I am ready but I am feeling dutiful today. So here I sit in Texas lets address that to catch up we voted yes for relistment which sent us into a whirlwind of things to do, achieve, and leave behind.  We visited my family in Lexington NC which included my mother brothers and nephews also my best friend. We then visited my Dad and Aunt in SC and lets just say saying goodbye sucks. When we were stationed in NC altho we didnt seee them as frequent as I would have liked it was nice knowing that I could. After you go this far away the feelings of guilt and feeling like you took alot for granted can be overwhelming. Sitting in TX in an extended stay location for going on a month! Addressing that looks something like this @#!@$%^^@!*!#$)# man am I sick of this place and I am so ready to see my own furniture and belongings! Also to updaate Kameran is now being homeschooled for the finale of his kindergarden year and probably throughout his first since SUPRISE we are facing a deployment next year and will be relocating AGAIN back to SC. He is doing really well with it and I'm hopeful that this will be some stablity for him that he would lack switching schools as frequently as he would need to. If anyone out there things Military life is easy HA Ha hA thats all I have to say. Durning all this transition my wonderful little boys turned two and six! My how children grow yet another thing I think I take for granted. well that brings you up to date we are currently house hunting and I hope we find something this week we finally have a few prospects like 4 out of the 60 I have called about :) til next time ahhh.... life *

mom_guilt

So I read a status post from a friend on facebook which gave me the idea for this blog. In a gist it basicly was a guilt post about regreting the past and wanting to hide from it. Now I don't know about everyone else but I can relate to this in many ways. I was no saint in my past years and as I become older and a better wife and mother the larger my guilt becomes about who I was. Even tho its not who I am now I feel like I should have never been that person in the first place. If I knew then what I know now has never rang more true for me. Whats important, whats not, how to live, how to treat others, has never been more clear and the clearer it becomes the more guilt that piles up on my shoulders. I feel this need to stand on something high (not a mountain top none around me.. no soap box either) maybe my freshly cleaned countertop, invite all my friends and family husband and children and confess all my sins take a deep breath and say ahhh there now ya kno im no saint and your disappointment in me can now surface! Now in reality who cares about the time you danced on this drank that or made bad decisions in hobbies and friends (my confessions would be more detailed) well I care I care that I was ever so stupid to think that what matter was what others thought or let someone influence my moral core to the pt of no take backs! to be the stupidest saying "young and dumb". Why did I have to be the one to say I was young and dumb I swear I thought I was mature and smart lol. I have made some decisions that will haunt me forever thats just the fact. Not in my marriage but even as a mother with my oldest when he was younger ( I was 19 when I had him) there were nights I could have stayed home but decided to go out times I bought cheaper diapers so I would have money for myself. now maybe to some it sounds stupid to even be blogging about this but those are things I think about. Guilt is a daily thing not only for my past choices but my current am I always making the best decisions for me and my family and am I giving enough quality time to both my children. Well I can answer no I am not I don't think I will even feel like an awesome mother and wife. I try and strive clean and scrub cook and hug play and protect but I don't know if I will ever be able to not have some kind of guilt in not being or doing enough. Now do I think I would have this guilt if I wasn't a wife and mother? NO. I think I would say you live you learn and it made me who I am. But honestly I think I could have become me without the things I regret I think I would still be who I am over all because my regrets are not things that molded me they are dumb selfish decisions useless to my life just a memory not worth having. As far as marriage I guess I have the guilt feeling because of who I was it kinda makes you damaged goods. That guilt its the most annoying. So I guess when my kids are teenagers or young adults I will say the same thing my parents said... all parents say "what you do today will effect the rest of your life" and  "I thought I knew it all too" and "with age really does come widsom" and like thier mother I doubt they believe me :)

decisions

So here I am last time I posted I was in a situation with my son's teachers. its been less than a week and now I am wondering if I am even going to be in this country a month from now! crazy how crazy.  I have been wrestling for months with the decision of my husband re-enlisting into the Army. There are many pros and cons either way. Just a simple list for ya security benifits all the basics cons would be leaving my family when we have to relocate or deployment. A part of me would love to have that adventure being from a small town where almost no one leaves and almost all come back it would be nice to see something outside of the Carolinas. It would only be for about two years- if when we come to this cross roads then we decide to wrap it up and head home. Then the other side hurts physically when I truely picture moving so far away it would take planes or days to come home to my family the ones who have always been there unconditionally. Then you add the fact that you are making choices not only for yourself but two little people. FEAR I think thats the biggest hurdle I feel excited at pts thru out these days I feel sadness I feel worry for my Dad, but the overcoming emotion would be fear.  I don't know this is the big cloud until some decision any decision is made. Then the fear of making the wrong one.

First blog = Introduction

Okay so to begin :) My name is Kristina and I am 25 years old. I am from North Carolina and currently am living outside of an Army base with my husband Brandon and two boys Kameran who is five and Jackson who is one. I have a close relationship with my family and a one hand count group of friends. I am strong willed, opinionated but in my eyes have a nac for seeing things for what they are, but as we all know thats probably not the case.
 I am sure the reasons behind me starting this blog are not too different from others who have came before me. I love to write always have I like to give advice and get it. Pretty simple. oo and let me give a warning I type fast commit errors and don't really pay enough attention to fix them its not that I can't spell I am just in the moment lol so be prepared for some typos :) So now I will try to give an overview of topics that I vent on or need advice on or might cover altho who knows whats coming. MOTHERHOOD that will probably be the basis for most of my rants being a stay at home mom in perticular. being a WIFE hence the title haha. I know that I will vent about my opinions of the human race in general but those will be the subject most of those blogs fall under... at least I think.