Hello, you

Good day to you! I gladly welcome you to my newest attempt at connecting with the cyber world. I confess now that I may not have the time and energy needed to dedicate to this blog as often as I like (or hopefully you like, and let's face it, you will crave this at some point) but I am going to try.

Hi!

My name is Ashley.

This is my blog.

I am a teacher during the day, and a new mom for the remaining 16 hours of the day. (alright, I'm a mom 24 hours a day but for 8 hours during school I'm a mom/educator/babysitter)

(and who are we kidding - a majority of the time, babysitter)

I have a 8 1/2 month old daughter. She's incredible (and not in the 'my baby's so much cuter than any other baby EVER' type of way, but in the 'she's such a good baby, oh and by the way, she's super adorable 98% of the time' way) I'm learning quickly that my mom/grandma/great g-ma were all correct in "what comes around, goes around" and time flies.

(In all clique glory, it truly feels like just last week we were waiting in the triage room for things to finally progressing.) (but it also feels like just yesterday that I was crying and begging to not have to continue with labor because I just couldn't do it)

Back to the point-

I have a man-friend (aren't I a little old to be introduced as your boyfriend?) (if you know the reference, 10000 bonus points to you if you leave it as a comment). We've been together almost 5 years and still going strong. As any couple, we have our moments (sometimes even days), but we work hard to show each other how much we want this to work.

We also have a cat... a cat who has recently (and by recently I may or may not mean 3 months ago) biten a hole in his own neck and is not allowing it to heal for whatever demented reason he may be thinking every time he digs his back claws into it. But mostly, he's a good cat.

I hope to see you soon, and I hope to find this as stress relief that neither my finger nails, nor facial skin has to endure any longer.

Hugs!