Hello!
I'm Laura, and for many years I have been shuffling many roles: single mother of two, wife, new mother of four, mother-in-law (!), sister, high school teacher, itinerant grad student, eclectic reader, amateur but enthusiastic decorator, organizer extraordinaire, Tex-Mex aficionado, magazine-aholic, hiker wannabe, wanderlust traveler, scaredy-cat movie watcher (no horror, please) ... and the list continues, stretching and twisting through the years.
My new goal: simplicity seeker.
I've really never experienced much simplicity in my life. I went from this
life as a single mom to my beautiful children, CJ and Josh
to adding this
Sid, the man of my dreams
plus this
my newest two nestlings, Devonne and Davis, who have grown a LOT since we first became acquainted
and this
CJ married the man of her (and our) dreams, Ben, this year on 09/19/09 - love the date!
which equals this
Here we are for Christmas 2009!
Here are our three furry family members who couldn't be corralled for the Christmas photo:
Pepper Jack, who most definitely has a Christmas tree fetish. He is our Olympic hairball contender - in both size and frequency. He LOVES to be petted - with our FEET. We love him anyway.
Pumpkin is our fuzzy black bear cat. She calls for us, is smart like crazy, and walks the house like she owns it. When she's not asleep or yelling to be fed, she's smelling...our...breath.
This is Tabitha (the most original name ever, right?) When our neighbors moved, Sid heard her crying underneath the storage shed in their backyard. She was the runt and had been abandoned by her mother. She will be five this year and still looks like she's an older kitten. She loves her mom (maybe it's the other way around) and sleeps with me every night.
Simplicity, here I come.
