We are the Millers

I love my blog.  I love to write about things that make me happy.  I love to write about my kids and my family.  I love receiving comments.  I love that I've built some major friendships here.  I love that this is my personal space, my outlet. I love reading other blogs, too.  I love reading birth stories and seeing kid updates.  I love to see your fun trips and amazing adventures.  New homes, holiday traditions, fun toddler stories...I love it all! What I don't love is when people have no sensitivity about what they blog and post things just to be hurtful.  I don't like when people spread lies and I have to read about them on a blog instead having an adult conversation about issues in person.  I don't like when people air dirty laundry (theirs or mine) instead of being mature and keeping some content to themselves.  I don't like when people steal my blog name and pass it off as their own.  And I really don't like when peop...

Original List of questions:  Q & A Questions List Describe a typical day in your current life. I hate to say it, but our days are pretty boring around here. My husband leaves for work early every morning so he's gone before we get up. Ashlyn is usually the first to wake and she always comes to my room to cuddle for a little before Bryan wakes up.  Once we are all up, we get dressed and the kids get their milk.  They don't usually like to eat breakfast right away so we wait a little for that.  Once they do eat breakfast, Ashlyn usually sits at the dining room table coloring or doing some kind of craft.  Bryan either sits with her and colors or plays or he goes to the playroom to play.  Ashlyn will sit at the table all day long.  She loves to draw pictures and color. I typically clean while they are coloring.  I usually get laundry started or clean up the kitchen from the night before.  I'm always vacuuming the house becaus...

Check out Shannon at Life After I Dew  for So What Wednesday. So what if: ~I decorated.  I needed to have some happiness in my home after the last few weeks of anxiety and family drama.  Now I want to wrap a few presents to put under the tree and put lights outside. ~An Amazon truck was stolen from our local facility.  I hope none of my recent purchases were on that truck! ~I have insomnia lately.  I'm tired but I can't sleep.  So I catch up on some shows or play on my phone.  Then I feel like crap the next day from staying awake so late. ~Date night was a bust.  We drove out of our area to see the movie I wanted to see because their website said they were showing it and when we got there, they weren't actually showing it.  So instead of going home, we saw a different movie, which kind of sucked. ~I prefer Instagram to Facebook.  There's so much less drama on IG.  (vmiller0918) ~I have way more storage on my new phone ...

Original List of questions:  Q & A Questions List List 10 things you would tell your 16 year old self if you could. 10 is just not a big enough number.  How about 16 things I would tell my 16 year old self if I could: 1.  You are not fat.  In 15 years, when you've had a few kids, you will kill for the body that you have now so stop worrying about whether or not you're fat.  You're not!  2.  These people you are surrounded by right now, they won't matter in 10 years.  Sure, you'll stay in contact with some of them, some will remain your friends, but most of them will not even remember your name in 10 years (nor will you remember theirs) so don't worry about them. 3.  Be more confident.  You don't find your confidence until you're much older and I can only imagine where you're be if you had found that confidence early on.  4.  Stop trying to grow up.  You don't know it yet, but there will come a day when you ...

Check out Shannon at Life After I Dew  for So What Wednesday. So what if: ~I put up a few decorations for our Christmas card photos we had taken this past weekend and now I want to decorate the whole house.  I just can't help it.  The Christmas lights get me every time. ~We took about 100 photos and have maybe two good ones.  I guess I really only need one good one for the card. ~I know I should wait a little longer to order gifts but I can't help it.  I just want all of my shopping done.  Now! ~I bought my husband tickets to go see Gabriel Iglesias on Saturday and he doesn't want to go.  He sold the tickets to a friend.  Instead he wants us to go to dinner and a movie so we can avoid crappy traffic in Hershey.  Plus I've wanted to see The Martian since long before it even came out.  I still don't know if I should be offended or relieved.  ~My Christmas wants consist of stuff for our house.  Towels, home décor,...

Check out Shannon at Life After I Dew  for So What Wednesday. So what if: ~I really want to get my Christmas tree out already.  My sister in law is coming next weekend and she always takes the photos for our Christmas card and I want it to be festive! ~I am so tired lately.  All I want to do is sleep.  All. The. Time. ~We went to our favorite buffet Saturday for my husband's birthday dinner with my family and I started my meal with a salad.  I mean, who gets a salad at a buffet? ~I could give two craps about Starbucks and their red cups.  Who cares people?! ~With Ashlyn's birthday coming up (right before Christmas), I've adopted the four gift rule for birthdays as well as for Christmas.  They have enough crap. ~I really, really, really, really, really need a hair cut.  It's out of control.  The kids are always pulling on it, it gets in my food, it's just all over the place.  I was considering getting it dyed as well, a pink...

Check out Shannon at Life After I Dew  for So What Wednesday. So what if: ~I made my grandmother's cut out cookies and they were amazing.  I'm not good with cookies so I didn't expect much but now that I know I can make them, it's a dangerous situation. ~I really don't mind that it gets dark earlier.  I'm kind of a night owl so night time is always my favorite time anyway. ~I shared my big news on IG.  I couldn't help it. ~I don't really like the show Scream Queens but I can't stop watching it.  I need to know who the red devil is. ~I'm having a Partylite party in December and I can't wait.  I got so much stuff last time and I love their Christmas stuff. ~I can't wait to put my Fall stuff away and put my Christmas decorations out.  Yes, I'm one of those people.  I always try to wait until after Thanksgiving, though.  Respect the turkey. ~I'm trying to schedule a girl's dinner every month.  I had so much fun at...

We all say it at some point. 'I have no idea what I would do if that happened to me.' It's a little phrase that we say innocently, never actually expecting the bad thing to happen to us.  We feel bad for the friend or family, we grieve for them, with them but we still don't understand the extent of their pain.  And we never imagine to. And then it happens to us.  And we finally understand. And we feel bad because we could have done better for our friend in her time of grief.  We could have said more, done more.  But now we are a part of the club.  A club no one wants to be a part of.  We never expected it to happen to us.  My pregnancies were no walk in the park.  With Ashlyn, I had preeclampsia and was induced two weeks early.  Labor was long and hard.  I pushed for over two hours.  When she finally came, the doctors couldn't control the bleeding and it almost ended badly for me. With Bryan, the pregnancy was muc...