Blogs Posts on "Finding Me"

A new place by Hope4Peyton on Jul 9, 2009Last month, just moments before we were getting ready to say goodbye to our Florida life I was musing to Pete about how fast it all seemed to be happening. Buying the new house, packing the old house, the end of school, the going-away party…it...

Rice and Buttons by Hope4Peyton on Jun 2, 2009I’ll bet you’re thinking there’s some exquisite inside joke in that title. And there probably is. But that’s not what this post is about. This is about the most infuriating bowl of rice I’ve ever encountered. I’ve...

My final wishes by Hope4Peyton on May 5, 2009Sitting in a hospital tonight with my husband, listening to the sound of his father’s restless stirring and the mechanical beeps that are uniquely hospital-driven, it reminded me that I have already laid down the law on my funeral. And before y...

At least my taste in beer and hair styles has improved by Hope4Peyton on Apr 20, 2009“Where you this interesting in high school?” I got this message on Facebook the other day from a guy I went to high school with. I can’t say we were friends or that we even knew each other all that well. For a few weekends we hung...

Do I have to have a reason? by Hope4Peyton on Mar 31, 2009Why do I blog?? It’s a question that’s been floating around, asking people to define the reasons what drives them to share so much of themselves to the Internet….to bare your soul to strangers. It’s probably been floating ar...

More NOT talking about my house by Hope4Peyton on Mar 18, 2009On this last day of our stay here in GA, the kids and I ventured north to check out where our *hopefully* new residence will be. We scoped out the neighborhood - OOH, is that an in-ground pool? We want to make friends with THAT family! YOWZERS, c...

Sorry to disappoint by Hope4Peyton on Mar 4, 2009I sure hope you woke up this morning and thought, “It’d be fabulous to go to Anissa’s site and just read a bunch of mad rambling and pointless babble.” Cause, for one, it gives me warm fuzzies to think I’d be your first...

Do you smell that? by Hope4Peyton on Feb 26, 2009People will ask me, “How do you keep UP with all those sites you write?” My honest answer is generally, “Have you seen the condition of my house?” And I ain’t lying on that one. But it’s not as m