Not one of THOSE blogs!

Before I started this blog, I used to blog stalk lots of people trying to decide if I wanted to start a blog myself. Some of the blogs would annoy me with people's posts about their perfect lives and perfect children, etc, etc... I swore I would make my blog more exciting and spend the majority of my blog talking about what life is really like and not sugar-coating things. Being real and down to earth.

After I published that last post, we jetted to the movies. While riding in the car, I started thinking about my last post and all my posts lately and thought to myself, My blog has turned into a boring, corny Mormon mommy blog! AGH!!!

Crap, am I a total bore??? 

I don't mean to sugar coat everything and make our life look like rainbows and unicorns. So, I want to get things straight here about that last post.

1- I do complain a lot about work. Just didn't yesterday and today. My perspective changes day to day.

2- Baking chocolate chip banana bread happens maybe once a month. 

3- Making a "yummy dinner" maybe happens once or twice a week. The days I'm working, Rob usually fends for himself or if he's lucky I might throw something in the crockpot.

4- I'm a terrible, impatient mom a lot of the time. And a good yeller too. I'm working on being better!

5- I suck at exercising. Just happened to do it this morning.

6- I stink at staying in touch with friends too. 

So there is a small glimpse into what day to day life is like around here a majority of the time. 

Here's the problem:

I'm sorry, but I do NOT want to write those things down and I do NOT want to remember them all that much. Yes, I do want to remember some hard days because I think it's good to go back and see where we've come from and how we are improving, but when I have a bad day, I don't always feel like writing down all my inner thoughts and bad feelings for the whole world to read. It's not because I'm trying to "hide" things or make our life look better than it is. Days like today, I really did feel THAT happy and therefore had the desire to write on my blog. I also think it's somewhat inappropriate to write that stuff down. I don't think it's okay to write why I'm mad at my husband for this or that reason. I don't think it's right when people talk bad about their spouses or children on Facebook or elsewhere. Certain "in the moment" thoughts should never be written down for others to see, even ourselves. (P.S. I'm not mad at my husband at all, just wanted to give an example. I might be soon though if he doesn't stop leaving his shoes right there next to the couch. haha)

Okay, what I'm trying to get at here is to explain why my blog has become such a bore.

It's not because I'm trying to create this cute little life for all of you to read about, it's because I don't want to write about the depressing stuff because it depresses me. I want to write about the good days and the good thoughts with the occasional vent or rant here or there. I want to dwell on the happiness that is in my life. And, really, truly, I have a very great life and I am very happy. And that is not sugar-coated. I promise. :)

Lastly, I just want you to know that I no longer have those thoughts about other's blogs that I used to have. I realize those thoughts were extremely judgmental. I understand and appreciate why people post about the things they do and I honestly love reading all of your blogs. I am so thankful for all of my blog-friends and family! I really appreciate those who care about our family and read our posts. I always love and appreciate all the sweet comments.  Thanks for being such great friends/family to us! We love you all!

Thanks for reading my boring, corny Mormon mommy blog! 
Stay tuned: I'm sure there are a thousand pictures of Drake laying around that I haven't posted! :)