Welcome to My World

I've been wanting to do this for awhile. Start a blog. I've been procrastinating about it for so long, well, because I've been overanalyzing it. Wondering who might read it, wondering who (if anyone) I should tell about it, wondering what I should write about, wondering what I should not write about. Ok, more than wondering - overanalyzing, obsessing. It's what I do. But like everything else I overanalyze about, doing so never yields an answer, so I'm just doing it. So there.

A little bit about me and my life: I'm a thirty-something, happily married mother of two. I'm 50% Italian, and also a Scorpio, so be forewarned: I'm fiesty! By profession, I'm an editor. My husband, J, is a computer geek by profession. He was quite a rugged man when I met him, but as he ages, the geekness is starting to take over.

We have two gorgeous, but dramatically different daughters, M (age four) and G (age two).

M is a girly-girl, through and through. Loves clothes and shoes, "shoe" was actually one of her first words. She's quite a serious and calm child. She loves to dance and act. She is eerily the spitting image of myself at that age, in both appearance and temperament.

G is a fire-ery redhead; in appearance the polar opposite of myself. She can't sit still for anything, and she's tough. A brute, almost. But by far the most compassionate child I have ever known. She genuinely consoles anyone who is sad, and even cried while watching a Lifetime movie with me once simply because a baby was crying in the background.

I still have not gotten used to the idea that I am a mom (even though a minivan sits in our garage) and I still can't grasp the fact that these two wonderful little people were borne of my womb. It's astonishing.

I look forward to sharing glimpses of my life with whomever out there might be reading.