and so it begins...

I sat down to do a little facebooking and looking around the internet tonight, and as I was typing a post for my facebook, I thought, "This post sounds like something I'd write in my blog!".  I've really had a blog for a long time...you just didn't know it!  I've also written books, redecorated my house in 20 minutes, sang professionally, restored a multitude of homes and log cabins, along with many, many other things...all in my MIND, of course! ;)  Dreaming is, as my Uncle Kim put it years ago, "Free HBO".  I think my dreaming is somewhere in the middle of TLC and heaven. Some of my dreams at night, though, are probably free HBO because they get pretty crazy!  My daydream blog is absolutely FANTASTIC.  I wish you could see it!  Anyway, this is the "official" start of my *real* blog. (YAY!!)  It will evolve, I'm sure.  Maybe one day it will be as fantastic as the one in my mind, but for now I am happy just to start it!  So...drum roll, please!...here is what I started typing on facebook, along with some other thoughts:

Sometimes I chuckle at magazines, tv shows and internet articles talking about slashing your budget, how thrifting is cool, and repurposing is all the rage; mostly all due to this bad economy. There are those of us that have lived this way our whole lives!! We were smart before it was "cool".  Apparently we were ahead of the times!  Then, I started thinking about the fact that some people didn't have the kind of upbringing I had.  There are people from all walks of life.  We are all unique and, thankfully, are not "cookie cutter" people!  I had hardworking grandparents who made it through the depression and passed their life lessons on to my parents during the lean times of their childhoods.  My Grandma Plew's motto was, "Waste Not, Want Not." I try not to waste, but I definitely don't have the not wasting thing down like my grandma did!  My parents did a bang up job of teaching my siblings and I frugality.  Looking back, we didn't have a lot of money, but I never really felt it.  Dad & Mom fixed what was broken, shopped sales, clearance, salvage & second hand; clipped coupons and, sure, sometimes bought things at regular price. In all honesty, even though we had our problems (who doesn't?!?), I had an ideal childhood; a good Christian home with lots of love, two parents together, an older sister, a younger sister, and the youngest; a brother...complete with cats and dogs along the way. =)

Since I don't have the Superwoman capabilities in real life that I do in my daily thoughts, I think this is a good place to stop.  Thank you for joining me on my blogging adventure!  I hope you will continue to follow me through whatever this journey may bring.  Before I go, I will leave you with a picture of me...