Monday, January 9, 2012

{visions of resolutions danced in my head}

Well here we are in the second week of 2012!!! How is everyone doing so far? I'm doing pretty darn good, I'm happy to say. The kids started back school today after being off for 3 wonderful weeks. It is kind of nice to get back at it, if only I could really get back at it. I have been totally struggling with what to do NOW, not that I'm freaking out over it, just would like to get more focused and motivated. So many wonderful ideas and resolutions are wandering around my brain, yet I haven't really kicked off anything substantial. Well there is still time for that and trust me I'm not giving up, I'll get some of these ideas implemented soon!

I thought perhaps I would give you a quick background about who I am. Some of you might already know me either personally or through one of my other blogs, but for those of you who don't, this is for YOU...

My name is Annie Lema and I am a 42 mom of 7 and a wife of almost 17 years!!! I was born in Long Beach, California where I lived with my parents and 1 of my 2 brothers for 3 years. The reason my other brother didn't live with us is that he was just shy of 21 when I was born, while my other brother turned 16 the month after I was born. Huge age difference, right? My mom was 45 and my dad was 46 when I was born, I was a bit of a surprise for sure. We moved from Long Beach to Anaheim Hills, California in March of 1973. If you know anything about Orange County or Anaheim Hills you know how built up it is now, well back in 1973 it was not! It was a wonderful place to grow up, we lived in a great neighborhood with fabulous neighbors. So great being a kid back then.

I lived in Anaheim Hills until after graduation in 1987 and also just before the birth of my 1st child. Shane was born October 13, 1987, 9 days before my 18th birthday. So I have been a mother since I became an adult. Natalie was born July 8, 1991 | Cortland was born November 20, 1995 | Katie was born December 6, 1997 | Brogan was born August 1, 2003 | Scarlett was born September 14, 2005 | and Dacie Brennan was born June 19, 2008.

So that is the brief run-down of my life. Kinda lacking some important and fun details but during the course of writing this over the past 2 hours, I have been more than distracted by kids coming home from school and getting back into the groove. So more details to follow {only the fab ones of course}.

Monday, January 2, 2012

{yet another new year's resolution}

Gotta love this time of year, everyone making their New Year's Resolutions hoping that THIS YEAR'S will  actually stick! I'm not real good with making or keeping resolutions, but today when I was reading the January 2012 publication of Better Homes and Gardens magazine I came across a suggestion to make some social resolutions, one of which was to begin a blog with a year long resolution. Well I already write 2 other blogs, but I thought that it might be fun to start a new one that was just about me and my life AND make an effort to post everyday. So even though this resolution didn't begin on January 1st, I figure I'm okay. They postponed the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl until January 2, 2012, so I'm in good company! Whew...