Hi friends!!
My apologies for being MIA for a little while.
I've been trying to get organized and re-think plans for Gracie Blue and future posts, as well as getting back into a normal schedule. It's been a fun filled summer but now it's time to prioritize, focus and plan for a new school year and all the holiday hustle and bustle that is closely upon us. I thought I would first fill you in a few things happening here on the blog.... I've decided to switch my weekly features, Very "Pinteresting" Tuesday, Wish List Wednesday & Favorite Home Friday into monthly features. My hope is to focus more on bringing you more posts about my home, my recipes as well weekly DIY projects and a peak into my baking business.
This is my plan and I'm hoping you will follow along!!
Today I thought it would be a great idea to start of fresh and fill you in on some random things about me that you wouldn't really know unless we sat together for a few hours over coffee....
So here it goes....
Random things about me....
~I am born and raised in Connecticut, but truly believe in my heart that I should have been born a southern belle and raised in the south.... y'all!!
~I believe in Jesus and find him in all things.... most of all when I look at my children....
~I was in fact named after Lisa-Marie Presley....
~I was in fact named after Lisa-Marie Presley....
~I am a mommy of two... Gracie (6) and JJ (2)....They are my life... period.
~My husband and I met at the gym where we both worked, became best friends and married three years later.... true story!!
~I am addicted to gold fish and diet coke.... in no particular order.
~I attended private schools all my life straight through college....
~I have worked (to this very day) in the fitness industry since I was seventeen and have always dreamed of competing in a professional fitness show....It will happen.
~I was a young equestrian and it will always be a part of me....
~I grew up an overweight child....
~I was 31 and seven months old when I lost my mom to cancer....My daughter, Nicolina Grace who is her name sake, was one year, nine months and sixteen days old the day she passed....Hardest day of my life.....
~I am an only child.... and always wished I had an older brother.
~I love to collect books, benches, baskets and chalkboards.... always have.
~I wear only one fragrance, Happy by Clinque, I began wearing it after my second boyfriend broke up with me during my freshman year of college. I vowed I would be "happy" and have been wearing it ever since....
~Cold Mountain is my favorite movie....ever.
~Sweet Home Alabama & The Notebook are tied for second!!
~I am going to be 37 (OMG) this coming November and I still have my "blankie" my Nonna gave me when I was a baby....
~I love all children.... Their innocence and love melt my heart...
~All I ever wanted to be as a child was a mom.... And Wynonna Judd!!
~I don't need an alarm clock to wake me.... Sleep and I aren't friends.
~I originally planned to major in Art and be an art teacher.
~I graduated college with a BS in Psychology and a minor in business.
~I graduated college with a BS in Psychology and a minor in business.
~I just now know what I want to be when I grow up....
A designer, event planner and own my own antique shop or bakery, or both.
~I am deathly afraid of heights and drowning.
~I love the fall and everything about it....
~I am a lover of all music, but country remains closest to my heart.
~I would play "teacher" everyday when I got home from school.
~I love to dance.... alone or in a crowd.
~I am profoundly shy.....
~I am addicted to Pinterest. No cure.
~I don't like to drink alcohol.... I'd rather drink coffee or tea....
~I have a phobia of throwing up and avoid it at all costs.
~I don't like to drink alcohol.... I'd rather drink coffee or tea....
~I have a phobia of throwing up and avoid it at all costs.
~I love my morning coffee in the afternoon....
~I dread talking on the phone.
~I am so much like my mother it's scary....
~I have always wanted to play the piano & guitar....
~I prefer farmhouses over mansions....
~I wear sweatshirts year round....collect those too!!
~I have always wanted to play the piano & guitar....
~I prefer farmhouses over mansions....
~I wear sweatshirts year round....collect those too!!
~I love horror movies, but will have nightmares for weeks!!
~I collect lip gloss, earrings and wallets...it's a problem!
~I am left handed.
~I am a self taught baker and blogger.
~I am a home body.... always have been.
~I can eat pizza seven days a week for breakfast, lunch & dinner.
~I have been working out since I was 17 and will do so the rest of my life.
~I make my bed every morning.
~My biggest fear....disappointing my dad.
~My first celebrity crush... Patrick Swayze....
~My favorite childhood memory was going to Church every Saturday night with my Nonna....
~My biggest pet peeve.... People who blow their nose at the dinner table..
~My first car was a 1982 V8 Firebird....
~My mom was and always will be my hero....
~My biggest fear....disappointing my dad.
~My first celebrity crush... Patrick Swayze....
~My favorite childhood memory was going to Church every Saturday night with my Nonna....
~My biggest pet peeve.... People who blow their nose at the dinner table..
~My first car was a 1982 V8 Firebird....
~My mom was and always will be my hero....
That's pretty much all I could think of for now...
One last thing you should know that I get asked about a lot... how I came up with the name "Gracie Blue"....
Gracie comes from my daughter's name "Gracie" and I choose the word "blue" as a tribute to my mom as blue was her favorite color.... she is missed every single day and I so wanted her to be a part of this journey...
Thanks for stopping by and get ready for fabulous things to come!!
Reading your list.. I'm saying to myself, that's me, that's me, that's me lol
ReplyDelete~Noelle
Oh well thanks Noelle!! Happy to know there is someone else out there just like me!! Thanks for stopping by!!!
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