T.G.I.F.

O.M.G.

Life is crazy.

12+ hour work days. 1 month old baby. Church. Family. Friends. Fur Babies.
I feel absolutely drained. It has been a hard work week. I have five huge events for work each year; two of those are in the next month. Insane amounts of planning go in to these events and hundreds of volunteers put countless hours of blood, sweat and tears in to each event. I LOVE working with these people. They are so passionate about our cause (I'm not sure I've really said what I do before, but I work for a non-profit responsible for raising money that funds cancer research) and I love sharing my passion for it with them.
As much as I love these people, and the cause, it is sometimes so hard to not be completely discouraged when every single day you deal with absolutely insane, demanding, rude, completely insensitive people.
And trust me, for every amazing volunteer and co-worker I have, I also have one that makes me want to pull my hair out, take up drinking and possibly move to a cave in the mountains and shut myself off from any chance of receiving 41 emails from one person in one afternoon, ON THE WEEKEND. Yes, this happened. No I did not answer any of them then, and still haven't weeks later. Don't be ridiculous and I might consider replying. Enough said.
So, even though it is not technically the weekend yet, I am so thankful this work week is almost over! I'm going to spend this
glorious Friday chatting up sponsors and presenting to the lovelies in Kiwanis, and this is going to be the most relaxing day of my week thus far.

Hope you pretties have an amazing Friday and enjoy the heck out of your weekend!!!

i'm back.

Life has been so crazy busy, I just had two seconds to sit down and realized that I have not blogged in like a month. A MONTH. How did that happen!?

Things have been so uber stressful with my job lately. I'm so not happy doing what I'm doing and I really feel like I should be doing other things BUT until those opportunities present themselves I have these little demonic things called bills that keep me locked up tight in this torture chamber called work. (And that was officially the longest sentence ever...my apologies.)

So, enough with the sad, depressing, makes me want to cry stuff.

In other news, in the last month my home was officially opened by DHS to allow me to foster kiddos! This still blows my mind, mostly because I'm a single 23 yr old girl that has no kids of my own, yet they trust me to love on these sweet babies. In the beginning I was only doing the classes and working to get my home opened to take in a sibling group in my community that had been split up. They have since returned home so I had decided to not take in any kids right now BUT I got a call about two weeks ago asking if I could take a sweet two week old baby boy. How can you say no to a gorgeous itty bitty?! Well, I couldn't, so now I'm "fomma" (my mothers creation.. foster + momma = fomma...don't ask) to the most cuddly, adorable, now three week old baby boy! I've had him for a week and a day and I can't even begin to explain how things have already changed for me, not just the obvious, but mentally and emotionally, things change so fast!

Keep this sweet baby and his bio family in your prayers, and remember me and my family also. It is so hard not to get attached, and I would be lying if I said this sweet little guy didn't already have me completely wrapped around his little finger!

We took Roxy and Baby Boy to the daffodil farm at Wye Mountain yesterday afternoon. Roxy loved it as usual (we have taken her every year for Easter pictures!) and Little Man was too sleepy to care. lol. (I would love to share pictures of him but since he is in DHS custody I can't post any. :( He's super cute though, you'll have to take my word for it!)

Vaca Bliss!

There are some days/weeks/months that my job drives me to pure insanity, and then I see the light at the end of the tunnel...VACATION!!!

The last couple of days have been pure bliss. Sleeping in past 6, going to the gym whenever I feel like it, not changing out of my pajamas. Yep, pretty much decided I could do this vacation thing year around!

I have also had the chance to spend time with two amazing friends that I don't get to see nearly enough!

On Tuesday I met up with the fabulous Ashley to do a little exploring in the super cute town she now lives in! Highlight of the day was a quick stop in this little shop owned by the most eccentric, fabulous and downright hilarious lady. The shop was filled with hundreds of paintings she had painted herself, and let me just say, she is mad talented...and did I mention hilarious!? We left this shop learning new things about our local "culture", how to angle men vs women when photographing them, and with the promise that if we ever needed advice on love, well, we know where to find her!

I had a blast exploring, taking pictures, window shopping and just catching up! Can't wait til next time!