Happy New First Blog Ever 2013 Year !

This is so freaking exciting! My first blog post on the first day of the year! I've been wanting to do this for a long time and finally, I got it done!  Thanks to my dear friend Dawn Minney Cope that helped me get this whole thing started, I could have not done it without her <3  Now, it is up to me to find time between Tutu's, Goggles and Cleats to write and document my day's adventures.

It all starts with me Mari, wife of 1 mother of 3.  Ice cream scooper extraordinaire, nanny, taxi driver, shrink, housekeeper, accountant, chef (certified), teacher, friend, psycho tiger mom  and on the road multi-tasker.  My entourage includes Paula (11), Niko (9), Lady Camila the  I (6)... , let's not forget the "Master of the house" my hubby Sir Gus, and my adorable, loving, perfectly behaved Fox Terrier puppy, Oddie.  Yes we are a big family, considering I come from a house of 2... it is for me.  But I love it and they all help keep my days, oh so entertaining!

A typical day in our house consists of: up by 6, out by 7:30 (which already makes us late for school), work till 5, dance by 4, swimming by 6 soccer by 6:30, home by 9... interesting I know! And none of it could be completely done without the help of my super awesomest, best grandma/mom ever... My mom, Super Mina.  She fills in the blanks and is a definite help with the overlapping schedules.  Her schedule is a bit worse... she goes to work at 5am so she can get the kids at 3pm from school and back at her second job by 5:30pm.  Some day I'll be able to convince her to stay with one job and enjoy her life a bit more.  In the meantime it is a lost cause.

Where is the hubster in all this you might ask? well, he is living the dream of the poor spending his days around luxury cars.  Lathering himself in fresh leather and hot engines. Dreaming of one day having his own... Porsche.  He usually doesn't get home till 8pm so dinner is usually on him ;) or so he says....

We are all on our toes every day and I consider myself to be very lucky to have so many loving people around me to help and support my madness.  My support system is great! and even though people say I need to slow down or ask, How I do it? Well it's easy... I absolutely adore and love my kids! For them I would run around the moon and back infinite times and again.  Which brings me to my first "Blog Pic". Yeeiii!!!!  I took this last night, right after midnight, trying out my new camera.  And guess what... after midnight, on new year's, the moon is not really that round :s lol!!

I love being on edge and busy and complaining and doing it again.  That's just me. And this year I plan on documenting my days with this blog.  A day in the life of me =) I am so excited and eagerer to do this! Tutu's, Goggles and Cleats will be the therapy and "me" time I've been searching for so long.

Hope you enjoy my future stories.  I leave you with a visual aid of my madness and reason for being, my lovely children ;)

 

 

 

Happy Blogging, Happy reading and Happy 2013 <3

 

Mari