New at this

So apparently I'm the last person in the world to get a blog.  It took forever to find a title and URL that I liked that wasn't already taken.  But, I'm gonna give blogging a try.  Mostly because I'm really bad at writing a journal.  And there are so many neat things that happen every day when you have a baby.  I just don't want to look back and think "I wish I had written down all of the cute things Alaina used to do".  And, of course, it will be great fun to look back with her on her graduation day and laugh about all the silly things she did.  Or embarrass her on her first date.  You know, the normal parent stuff.

Now, I am not under any delusions that someone reading this blog won't already know who I am.  I'm not THAT interesting.  But, in the off chance that someone that doesn't know me happens to drop by this page, let me introduce myself.  For some reason back when I was better about writing in my journal I would always introduce myself at the start of each new book too... I still don't really know why.  But here we go.  My name is Sunny.  I was born and raised in the South.  Born in Greensboro, N.C. and moved to Suwanee G.A. when I was fifteen.  I spent a couple of years in Utah going to college, and then 18 months in Taiwan.  Yes, I do speak Mandarin, Chinese. (random interesting tidbit)  After I got back I got married to my wonderful sweetheart, Marshall.  He was very patient and wrote to me the whole time I was over there, even though if he had had his way, we probably would have gotten married instead.  It was really neat to get to know him through letters though.  He is my absolute best friend and he is always so supportive of everything I want to do.  Our beautiful baby girl is now 9 months old, and I really have no clue where that time went.  She's a little spitfire- loves to climb and find things to get into.  I wish we had a bigger place so she would have more area in which to crawl, but that's not happening until Marshall gets a job.  Marshall just  finished up his masters in Statistics and he's currently trying to find a job- he wants something in the pharmaceutical realm (drug trials, things like that).  We'll see how that goes.  We've been the pretty stereotypical poor student family for the past 3 years.  But we still have fun.  I try to be a very crafty and awesome stay-at-home mom, but there just aren't enough hours in the day.

Most of this from here on out is going to be the rambling thoughts and tidbits that I come up with during nap time.  I wish I were eloquent like my little sister, but her talent is writing and mine is painting.  I'll do my best not to bore you.  I heard a song once that was set to "favorite things" from Sound of Music.  But it was "Bedtime and Naptime" - a Mom's favorite things.  I kinda have to disagree.  Naptime might be my least favorite time of the day.  I like that I can put a fussy Alaina down and get a happy one up a couple of hours later, but the time in between is not my favorite and I'll tell you why:  When Alaina is awake I just relish in the ability to play with her, talk (babble) back and forth with her, and basically enjoy my child.  However, once that door closes and she's down I look around and think of all the stuff I should be doing: clean the house, sweep the floor, make the bed... etc.  But I'd much rather do something else.  Like NOT clean.  Now, before you get the wrong idea, my house is pretty clean to begin with.  Mostly I just need to tidy up and push the broom around to get up the remnants of lunch.  I'd rather have her awake so I don't have to feel guilty about what I'm not doing.  And, to be honest, it's just more fun with her awake.  Today I figured that writing a blog is a good way to kill two birds with one stone:  I can feel productive during nap time because I'm getting something accomplished and I don't have to feel bad about not tidying up the toys that I know she'll just pull back out in a couple of hours.  And hopefully this will be interesting for more than just me.