A new start...

Well, I've blogged before & I sucked at it. Now that I'm all grown up & married, I've decided to rejoin the blogging world & start posting instead of just stalking my friends blogs! For those of you that may not know anything about me...here's a short summary...

...born & raised in Byram, MS...
...I graduated from THS in 2004 - 04 fo sho!...
...went to Hinds, turned it into a 4 year college...
...moved to Starkville to attend MUW...
...met some awesome people & partied my socks off (in a mild kinda way!) with them...
...graduated in 2010 & sadly moved away from God's country...
...in the midst of all of that, lost all hope of finding "the one"...
...my crazy friend & her crazier friend introduced me to a Wrangler-wearing country boy...
...that Wrangler-wearing country boy (who now sports Levi's, & looks might fine in 'em!) swept me off my feet...
...met in September (one year ago yesterday, in fact), "official" in November, engaged by Christmas, married in March...


People always look at me crazy when I tell them how we met & married. My reply is always 2 simple statements... "When you know, you know" & "Why wait?!"

This is my 2nd year teaching for Hinds County - last year was 2nd grade, this year it's 6th. Big jump, I know. Each age has good & bad, & some days I may come home screaming "I'm not going back to that place!," but I love my kids! (& we'd be living in the camper if I quit...) I freaking love Eric Church, mexican food, MISSISSIPPI STATE, wine, fried rice, my cuh cuh, planners...& I do not love constant complaining (DISCLAIMER - yes, I will complain on this blog. I'm human. But every word out of my mouth will not be a complaint.), mayonaisse, lonliness, bright light, loud noises, Ole Miss, people talking when others are talking...

Andrew is a firefighter - & a pretty darn good one at that! I've never seen someone with so much passion for something! When he's not on shift, he's running every call he can for the volunteer department (also another thing I NEVER saw myself doing...& guess who has a pager now!). Even though he rolls his eyes a lot at my silly OCD requests, he treats me like a queen. Because of him, I've forgotten how to make my coffee. We make a pretty sweet team in the kitchen & we never stop laughing!

Oh & it's not just the 2 of us living here. There's also Baxter. Now anyone that knows us knows that we are NOT cat people, or animal people at that. But we are also not mouse people, & Baxter is a solution to that. The dude's cuddly & sweet one minute, then on thin ice with mama the next. (Like when I found a KITTY-POO covered bathroom yesterday!) Little does he know that as each day passes, he's closer to packing his things & moving to his new outdoor home to protect mama & daddy from the enemy. Once he's outside, there won't be another living/breathing/gotta feed/gotta clean "being" in this house for a while! No more pets for us, & no plans for bebe's anytime in the near future! So that should answer your first question for us! :)

Well, I think I've given you a small glimpse into our lives...
Now it's time for bed so I can get up bright & early & suit up in my mouse costume (it's Homecoming week!)

Til next time...
Madeline