Will you still Like Me if I just be Me?

Will you still like me if I just be me?

When this blog journey of mine started, I wanted a place of my own to share my crafts.  I wanted to show the world my painting and my DIY... make a few friends who shared that passion that I hold deep within me.  I don't have that in real life... many of my friends wouldn't know what to do with a hot glue gun if it burned them in the ass {I still love you all}.  I didn't want my blog to be about the real me.  The sometimes crazy, lonely, emotional wreck of a woman I tend to be.  I didn't want it to be about my husband or my kids... everything I do is about the kids.  I wanted to focus on perfection... a perfect painting, the perfect color, the perfect chair, the perfect recipe, perfect perfect perfect...

Source: everycreativeendeavor.com via Kim on Pinterest

The problem is {for me} is that many {not all} of the big DIY blogs are just that, all about DIY and living a perfect life.  I will not quote nor name names but one big blog I follow recently stated something like this  'us crafty bloggers just want to look at crafts and show off what we've done... we don't blog about the drama'.  Now, that's all well and good and I suppose that's what I thought I wanted too when I started T&B.  We all have enough drama in our own lives and crafting blogs may be the escape many need from that drama in real life.  Problem is, I am so much more

What do you do when you're not feeling all that crafty?  Or happy? Or you're just in a dramatic place?  When you focus so hard on making everything seem so...PerFect, there isn't much room for error!

One of the ideas that resounds in my mind from researching hints for building a better blog is this...

" Be YOU, write from your heart.  People read blogs they connect with on some level."

There are so many blogs in every genre;  chances are what you are writing about isn't exactly original.  I know that I'm not the only painter in the world and I'm certainly not the only one who blogs about it.  One only needs to see so many different ways to paint a birdhouse or sew a curtain.  What keeps me going back to certain 'must read' blogs is the person behind the blog.  A connection I've found with that person in some way... even if they don't know it!  Someone who's faith or parenting, or humor inspires me.  People who write blogs that somehow expresses who they are between the painted orange walls, hand made chatchkeys, and kick butt sensory bins are those who keep me coming back.

I have convinced myself in a multitude of ways that you do not want to hear my story.  Perhaps many of you don't and I'm sure I will lose a few followers along the way, but I'm also sure some of you do.  Seems that my idea of having a blog all about me... is well... just not working unless I share the parts of my life who make me who I am!  I am so much more Truth be told, I hadn't picked up a paint brush since high school until the birth of my daughter.  If it weren't for her I don't know that I would have even rediscovered or allowed myself to experiment with that creative side again. 

So my question remains:  Will you still like me if I just be me?

Source: fromupnorth.com via Kim on Pinterest

Tiaras and Bowties will always have DIY and paint and general craftiness and welcome those who share that with me.  You will see some changes though,  I am hoping to share a bit of what it's like to be a Special Needs Mommy- from my perspective.  It's WHO i AM!  The good the bad and the very very ugly too!  I hope you will continue to stick around.  I hope to find some other SN Mommies too so if you know any please let them know I'm looking for them!  {Regular mommies are welcome too}.

May Catch up!

Happy Hump Day!

If you've returned today for Part 3 in the Ending Bloggers Guilt series... I've had to 'roll with it' this week and postpone that little ditty for another day!  My apologies!  It's coming... it's coming.

Let's catch up a bit!  This month has been a whirlwind of crazy busy-ness!  My little assistant is still wearing his little {big} e-collar following not 1, no not 2, but 3... yes 3 surgeries in a week for a neutering job gone very very BaD! 

That was after surgery #1... done at the local SPCA neuter clinic.

Had I know then what I know now, I'd never have done this to him!

Sorry SPCA- but I don't respect you as much as I used to... humane - really?

NO pain management for the little guy and NO support- think twice about going there peeps.

{pretty little purple collar, yes he is a boy but mommy wanted purple}  

he was able to reach his incision and ripped it open!

After surgery #2- some super pain killers, antibiotics & luvin'.

Notice the longer 'vet issued' e- collar and pretty 'purple' stitches.

Mommy felt very bad as the vet chastised me for taking him 'there'.

Things went well until he ripped them out and opened his incision again.  The Vet shot some staples in there that time... poor baby.  Mommy had to profusely swear to the doc that we did NOT remove your collar and explain your freakishly long neck to the vet!  Ooohh you are so bad, BoBo!

BoBo {Orton} was still able to 'reach' that special area and this is what we resorted to:

Hey, you do what you need to do to get by...

BUT

the little stinker learned to ram him head into the walls and floor to pop the extended collar off and,

YEP- you guessed it!

Ripped them out a 4th time needing another surgery!

And the vet had to admit now that "He Hava Necka LikeA Giraffe--- and a longa tongue!"

He has 'the collar of all collars' on now.

So long, mommy has to feed him by hand because he can't get his face far enough to the food bowl.

In the midst of all of this... Ms. A had surgery on her ear too!

Wish we all could be that happy knowing we are about to have surgery huh?

She was just so happy she would be out of pain!

A simple tube removal and cleaning of the ear from a large build up of some ' ka ka' they thought was from the old tube being in there.

Yeah right!

No tube, my friend.  Docs said it's very rare to have that much tissue build up & they've never seen an ear that bad before without a 'foreign' object lodged in there!  Now we have to have a CAT scan to check the bone structure of the ear.

That's MY Girl!

She bled and had pain alot longer than usual from all the put zing they did in there.

I have a funny story for you about why my friends say I run a house for wayward souls...

another day my friend, I'll share another day!

Oh and if you're still here...

I've been up to my eyeballs in flowers!

That's just one bucket of many!

I'm helping with a wedding party... trying to keep costs low for them.

So starting in June, I'll be sharing some of my secret How to's on a 'tight' budget!

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