That Quirky Wife

Okay so, how many people are so sick of bouncing from diet to diet and either getting no results or just not being able to stick to it? That's me. I've tried cutting carbs, cutting calories, cutting fat, cutting all three at one time. I've tried adding exercise to all of them and to no avail...NOTHING. I've even tried the all powerful Keto diet and while I lost 7 pounds but it was just water weight (of course.) If you don't know what the Keto diet is, its where you cut your carbs down to less than 20g a day, your calories are around 1,500, and you need like 100g of protein a day! Now, while that was easy enough, that means no bread, no sweets, no potatoes, no veggies, and as far as fruit, you can only have select berries. Cheat days? Nope. What happens is when you cut your carbs down to a certain amount, you body no longer uses them as an energy source and it will start using fat to power itself....hence why you lose weight right? That "state" is called...

As a stay at home mom to two little girls, I frequently get asked, "What do you do all day?" and "Don't you love staying home with your babies?" But, my favorite thing that I hear from people is "You have it so easy being home with you kids" lets process that for a minute....lets bask in it for a little bit. I must have it SO EASY being home with my kids. Yes Karen, I've got it so easy being home with two peeing, crying, pooping, whining, angry little midgets that both scream at me when their butts need to be wiped. Don't get me wrong I absolutely LOVE my kids...I mean I would die without their smiling faces, giggles every day and even though I'm struggling with the terrible two's right now, i wouldn't trade it for anything in this world. But there is absolutely nothing "easy" about staying home with my kids. Between the tantrums, my youngest refusing to stop crying or take naps, all the housework, the constant cook...

Through the generations, every mother has worked their butt off to produce and raise tiny humans…It’s hard, no one can argue that. But I feel that apart from a mom just being a mom, everything else is different. When I was born, my grandma literally lived across the mobile home park from us and she spent every waking second at our house taking care of me, and even my mom. She needed naps too, I mean all the other moms can relate to that right? Baby’s up for 20 out of the 24 hours a day and we’re still expected to be bright eyed and bushy tailed the next morning. Back then not being completely put together was okay and it was easy to hide “mom hair” (you know what I’m talking about, those mile high perms am I right?) Many of us grew up in the 80s and 90s I’d assume, where we roamed around the neighborhood by ourselves or with a big group of friends, where we’d walk all the way across town just to see if our friend was home instead of calling them, where all of our time and I mean A...

okay friends....this story comes with a "trigger warning." This is a true crime blog and there is murder, sexual assault, and children involved, if this upsets you, back out because 1.) I don't want you guys upset and 2.) I don't need nasty comments yelling at me haha So, I had a friend on Twitter recommend this story to me because she had never seen it been covered by a blog or podcast before and thought the story needed to be told. Once I started reading, i was hooked, so here it is.... Christina Marie Williams was born on May 1st, 1985 in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan to a Filipino mother named Alice Williams, and an American father, named Michael Williams. Her father was chief petty officer in the United States Navy. They had moved to Seaside California, to the Fort Ord, area, a year earlier where Christina was in the seventh grade at Fitch Middle School. She had good grades, maintained a "B" average, and she sung in the school choir. She was describe...

So, let me start out by saying, I have pretty normal skin. It's not really oily, and I do get random breakouts. If I don't wash my face every day, twice a day, I breakout and it takes me about a week to fully clear my skin up. I also, have hormonal breakouts occasionally during THAT time, not every time, but often enough. I'd just consider my skin average, and not in special need of anything in particular, I just want to take care of it and have it in its best state possible and being on a budget, I struggle because while I'm not in a full blown "everything needs to be natural”mindset, I do try to have things as natural as they come and as good for my skin as I can get. I'm not saying that what I have and what I use will be a cure all, BUT I have recommended this routine to three people I know, and its cleared their faces up and their skin looks SO healthy, so consider that if you will. And let me add, while all of these things are linked to Amazon, i perso...

I came across a rather interesting article this week (while preparing for Halloween)...killer Ouija Boards. No, they don't come to life wielding a butcher knife and the planchette doesn't fly across the room and stab someone. I'm talking about Ouija Boards TELLING people to murder. I read the article and i was HOOKED so i figured I'd share with you guys, my most awesome of readers haha! #1: Okay, so the first ever report of a Ouija Board "murder" that I could find was on November 8th 1933 in Prescott, Arizona. It started when Dorthea Turley and her fifteen year old daughter, Mattie, sat down to have a Ouija Board session. Dorthea was reportedly a regular user and firm believer in the power of the Ouija Board (eep!) and had apparently used it for a wide variety of purposes including financial advice to the location of a stash of hidden gold?  At some point during this specific session (where it became a murderer), the planchette hovered over the board CL...