Mommyhood: The Ugly Truth volume 1

Raise your hand if you are a mommy and you have caught yourself saying "why didn't anyone tell me that (insert your mommy stressor here) would be like this???"

Now, obviously I'm not a mom, so CLEARLY I can't even give my two cents on the topic. However, my friend Shannon Harrigan, mother of two beautiful boys, has written a hilarious E-book called Mommyhood: The Ugly Truth Vol. 1. For all you mommies out there who need a good laugh or a "Oh I can sooooo relate to that" moment, please take a minute to read and purchase my friend's Ebook. It costs a mere $1.99 (way less than a cup of coffee!) for the first volume through kindle, and she currently pumping out volumes 2 and 3 as we speak and will be coming out in a bi-weekly basis. She brings the truth about mommyhood, in a hilarious and almost Chelsea Handler-ish style.

I am lucky to call Shannon my friend (since high school actually!). She is a wonderful mom and is living out her dreams. Please support her, it costs less than a coffee at Starbucks! Below I will include all the links, website, etc. so you can get her Ebook:

Kindle Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0067AU95S

Mommyhood: The Ugly Truth, Volume One

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Momyhood: The Ugly Truth Mommyhood: The Ugly Truth is based on the blood, sweat and tears that go into being a mom. A humorous series that provides honesty on parenting, the author used actual blood, sweat, and tears to share her stories in the hopes that other mothers have a laugh, re...

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  Mommyhood: The Ugly Truth, Volume One, an Ebook by Shannon Harrigan

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  Volume One shares the ugly, yet funny, realities of parenthood. Shannon Harrigan dares to go off-script from other moms who paint their experience in rosy colors and instead shares the hard, yet humorous, truths of being a mom. From tantrums in public, to breastfeeding debates, and during a constant...
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  Born Shannon Faraone, she was raised in the Bay Area of California and still resides in the area. She was married to her husband in December of 2006. Together they have two sons. Their first born, David, was born in October of 2008 and named after Shannon's Dad. Their second, Anthony, was born in August of 2011 and was named after Shannon's Papa who sadly passed away a month later. Shannon has written guest columns for the Hollister Freelance, has been featured on several blogs, and is now pursuing her dream of becoming a published author.

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Crafternoons! Part 1

OKay, my bloggy needs something nice and light!!!

Like the rest of the female population, I am now madly in love with pinterest.com. If you are not on there, you need to be, like, right now.

Thanks to pinterest, I have found an abundance of ideas for crafts. I am normally not crafty and usually rely on people to spark ideas.

Thanks to pinterest, at least 2 days a week I have what I like to call "crafternoons" (thanks to the adorable Zooey Deschanel for coming up with the term) where I spend the afternoon doing a fun craft. SO far here is one of my favorite and easiest crafts, the t shirt scarf!!!

T Shirt scarves. Easy peasy to do. Pics below to see how to do it:

 1. Start with an old t shirt

 2. Cut all the way across, under the arm pit

3. cut strips up the shirt. Longish ones are the best. Go up midway

DONE AND DONE.

Update on "losing it"

First off, thanks to my peeps who have reached out through FB, emails and texts and shedding some light on this "hair-gate" issue.

Last week I went to the doc and told her my plight. Long story...she checked me out, immediately sent a referral to the dermatologist (super hard to do in Kaiser world apparently), and she ordered the biggest blood work up ever.

Cut to two days later...got my blood work done.

Cut to 4 days later...appt with the derm.

I told her my story and she asked me a ton of questions. She pulled up my bloodwork and everything was FINE. Yep, nothing strange, crazy, or out of the ordinary. My thyroid levels were excellent. While that was great, it was a bit frustrating because at least if my thyroid was out of whack, at least we would know that was the cause.

She then played with my hair, examined my scalp, had an assistant take lots of pics of my scalp. Then she asked if I wanted for her to do a scalp biopsy. Of course I said yes, let's find a solution already!

Then, I see her taking out sharp scissors, needles and such.

GULP.

She puts a shot in my head (which shockingly, didn't hurt that bad!) and numbed me up pretty good. Then, using her tools (I chose to not look, LOL) she cut out a small chunk  of my scalp to be examined.

It will take 10 days for it to get back from the lab and we go from there.

Let's hope we find a solution and put an end to it!

losing it....

So this is another serious post :(

I don't like writing serious posts, I like to keep things nice and light, but I feel like I need to post, because I really need to get insight if anyone else is dealing with this.

Back story:

I have been blessed with lucious locks. Super thick, black hair. My hair would really take over my head, because it was so thick.

But in the last year, I have been dealing with major hair loss.

I have been losing lots and lots of hair, to the point where its thinning so much on top.  I notice it a lot when I am in the shower. I chopped off my hair to see if it would help, and it hasn't changed anything.
Its gotten bad to where I put it up, you can see streaks of my scalp.

I have tried to remain calm, but I am freaking the hell out. Now, I realize people are dealing cancer, tumors and AIDS, and that this isn't life threating. It truly, could be worse.

I get that. But this isn't normal either.

Some changes I have done:
- not styling my hair as much, barely ever blow drying my hair.
-Taking hair vitamins and a mult-vitamin
-trying, as much as humanly possible, to not to be stress case/worry wart

Tomorrow, I have a doctor's appointment. Ladies please, if you have dealt with this, please give me some advice.

rose colored glasses

Random. 'Nuff said. Just go with it. It will make sense.

One of the things I love as a teacher, is how a lot of my kids are so innocent and look at life with rose colored glasses. Case in point from my life:

As a little girl, I absolutely loved Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz. I was  little when I saw the movie (five to be exact) and thought at the time, she was really Dorothy, and not Judy, LOL!

I loved how she was so sweet, how she rocked her dress and red slippers, and her adorable dog. She was awesome.

As a I got a little older, I clearly and obviously learned she wasn't really Dorothy, HAHA. However, I really thought she was like her Dorothy character in real life, darling and sweet, unassuming and most of all innocent. That she led this absolutely charming life, with a pup in tow.

However when I was in high school, I read her actual bio and I came to learn that while she is hailed as the top 10 actresses of all time in Hollywood, she suffered many personal tragedies, failed marriages, a forced abortion (so she could keep working, thanks to her mama), was placed in a sanitarium,  had horribly low self esteem, tried to commit suicide, and eventually died of a drug overdose.

I remember feeling like the "glasses" came off and I saw her for who she truly was, and it made me sad. As we get older and transition into being an adults (some earlier than others), we learn the hard realities of life and that things are not always as they seem, and honestly, that is depressing.

 I sometimes yearn to be 5 again and believe everything is perfect and all is right with the world.

While I for sure can't complain about my life and am grateful for all that God has given me, it would be nice to be a kid again.