About Me

I’m a 30-something mom living in small-town Iowa (GO HAWKS!!) — trying to keep my sanity juggling the family calendar. I have 2 children, 2 stepchildren, a husband, 1 cat and 3 dogs. I work full-time too. Put all that together, you might think I’m also full-time crazy.  Oh, and did I mention we’re ADOPTING, too?

So, “About Me.” One of the most important pages on one’s blog. It’s the page that sums up everything there is to know about someone. Wow– if that’s not pressure, I don’t know what is!

Let’s see. Where to begin?

I was born on St. Patrick’s Day in 1973, in the cold, arctic tundra Mason City, Iowa. Being a St. Patrick’s Day baby does not make me Irish, although its usually one of the first questions people ask when they hear my birthdate. I have two awesome, happily married parents. I have a younger sister, and we tormented each other for years.

I am happily married to the most wonderful man on the planet. He’s my soulmate and my best friend. He knows me better than anyone else, yet he still sticks around anyways!! He has given me the greatest life and greatest family anyone could ever ask for. Maybe we are the exception to the rule, but online personal ads worked for us!

I have four children. Two daughters, Caitlyn and Courtney– and two stepchildren, Cameron & Kaylee. They are all such awesome and unique individuals, and they have helped make our family dynamic quite interesting, to say the least. In addition to the children, we have FOUR four-legged animals (3 dogs, 1 cat)residing in our house– Bella, our yellow lab puppy. Gabby, our Malti-Poo white fluffball.    Mia, our Pom-Schnauzer mix puppy (named after my youngest daughter’s favorite soccer player!). Molly, our fat god-only-knows-what-kind-of cat that we only got because she was free and I’m too nice to get rid of her.

When I was in kindergarten, I wrote in my scrapbook that I wanted to be a teacher or a trapeze girl. I turned out to be neither. I am currently an Administrative Assistant for a large insurance company in West Des Moines, Iowa. I also attend college in my ‘spare time,’  which means it will take me about 40 years to finish my degree. I am working on my degree in Human Resources Management. I think it’s a good field of work for me, because I like telling people what to do, and I like even more telling people when they are doing something wrong.

Likes:

Chinese food, watching my kids play sports, clean sheets on the bed, sleeping with the windows open, new purses, new shoes, brain teasers, french vanilla cappuccino, holding my husband’s hand, decorating the house for Christmas, finding a good bargain, garage sales, a good chick lit book, crying at movies, Grey’s Anatomy, karma, driving a pickup truck, Iowa sweet corn, Facebook, playing blackjack, GLEE, Adam Levine, singing karoake, country music, Christmas carols, getting my nails done, blogging, scrapbooking, coming home to a clean house, reality TV, sitting outside on a summer night, riding on the back of my husband’s Harley, IOWA HAWKEYES, having short hair, procrastinating, being high-maintenance, playing board games with friends, Barack Obama, playing Wii Rock Band with my kids, kicking my stepson’s hiney on Rock Band Tug of War (I ROCK!), my husband’s cologne, snuggling with my youngest girl, gossiping with my teenager, grilling out in the summer, and being a cool mom.

Dislikes:

Wasps, poor spellers, my big feet, two-faced people, permed hair, sunburns, swimming in lakes, paying full price for ANYTHING, drivers that don’t use their turn signal, bats in my house, bad tippers, the smell of the Goodwill store, hitting deer with my car, people that pretend to have money, cheap flip-flops, accidentally wearing my husband’s socks to work, black coffee, shopping at the mall the weekend before Christmas, 80s clothing, all of the drivers on my morning commute, people that drive slow in the fast lane, people that let their dogs poop in my yard, skinny jeans, my height (5’9″ yuck), having to work full-time, doing laundry, losing board games, crappy internet connections in small town Iowa, stretch marks, debt, illegal aliens, and teenage attitudes.

I’m sure there’s more, but I need to leave some mystery, right?

This page should give you all you really could ever care to know about me– and probably more! I don’t claim to be a great writer, and I won’t promise to always be funny. I sometimes cuss, and I sometimes like to talk about things that are controversial. If that’s not your style, feel free to click on that little red “X” in the top right corner. I promise not to be offended. Much.

Sincerely, Jenni