EEK!! I LOVE these posts (and I think you guys do too). If you’re new around here, every so often I ask a guest blogger come over to “Own It” and “Claim Her Crazy”. Usually, we can all relate and laugh all at the same time.
Today I have a very special guest. I read her blog for years and finally got to meet her last fall at the Rodan + Fields’ Convention. Let me introduce you to Mel! Mel blogs over at The Larson Lingo where she covers it all from recipes to parties to printables. Be sure to check her out. She is fun, fun, fun! Trust me, you’ll wanna be her friend ASAP! I’m so excited she agreed to come and share her crazy with us.
Here’s Mel…
Hi! I’m Mel!
Wife to Kevin since 2002
Mom to Kate (9), Claire (7.5) and Luke (3.5)
I am a middle school math teacher.
Born and Raised in California.
Target and Lake Tahoe are my happy places.
I am obsessed with taking pictures, Thinking of Baby Names and Pinterest.
I love Throwing Parties (that’s a whole extra post of crazy) Reading, Binge watching Netflix and Eating Pizza Every Friday Night.
Last July I started running after a 10 year hiatus and have run 3 Half Marathons since October….now that is crazy!
You can find me on my blog The Larson Lingo where I blog about our life, my favorite recipes, throwing parties, motherhood and a whole lot of randomness!
You can also find me on Instagram here.
I am so excited to be guest posting on Erika’s blog!
Erika and I have been reading each others blogs for a couple years and we finally got to meet in person last Fall at the Rodan + Fields convention! She is a sweetheart!
When she first asked me to post about “Owning It” and claiming my crazy, I thought to myself “I am sure I can think of a few things to post about” Then I started making a list…because I am OBSESSED with lists….and the list kept growing and growing and growing because I’m a lot more crazy than I originally realized. Yikes.
Here we go…..
{ONE}
I have a freakish memory when it comes to numbers/birthdays (good thing I am a math teacher, right?)
If you tell me your birthday, I will remember it. It is randomly stored in my brain and I don’t know why, but I never forget your birthday once you tell it to me.
I have been like this my whole life…my friends call me Rain Man because of this.
{TWO}
I love color coding things.
When I was in middle school and high school, I would color code my classes.
English was purple…that meant I would write my English assignments in my planner in purple pen. My English folder was purple and I would have a purple book cover on my English books.
History was blue, Science was green, Spanish was orange and Math was pink (my favorite color and favorite subject)
Wow…I can’t believe I can’t believe I even remember what color I used for these subjects all these years later.
I’m CRAZY impressed you remembered the colors!! haha!
{THREE}
Speaking of color coding things, my closet is organized by color.
I have all my shirts in rainbow order, then white, grey and black (grey is in the middle of white and black because if you mixed the 2 colors together it would be grey)
{FOUR}
Speaking of clothes….starting on the first day of my freshman year in high school, I had a notebook where I wrote down what I wore to school EVERY SINGLE DAY…..all 4 years of high school.
I still have this notebook in a bin with all my high school mementos.
I wrote down my outfits (including shoes/belts) because I didn’t want to wear a duplicate outfit more than once every 3 months in high school.
Side note…I grew up in California and when I was in high school the movie “Clueless” had just been released and my high school was a little bit like that.
Anyways…yeah….for 4 years I wrote down every single outfit I wore to school. Who does that?!?!
If my younger sister is reading this, I am pretty sure she started doing this also because I did. I was such a good influence…..
Oh my goodness!! This one made me laugh out loud!
{FIVE}
I love even numbers. Kevin and I were married on 8-24-02 and I love that date because they are all divisible by 2. When I was pregnant with all 3 of my kids I would write down dates to see if I liked the way they “looked” With Kate I was due in January of 2007, and those are both odd numbers, so I even though I love even numbers, I wanted her to be born on an odd numbered day since January is an odd month and so is the year 2007. She was born on 1-23-07, so that worked out 😉
My younger sister is also a math teacher and also has a weird thing with dates like me, so during our pregnancies we would text each other dates that we hoped our babies would be born on.
{SIX}
As you can tell…I can be slightly OCD.
We didn’t find out gender of our kids until they were born.
When I was pregnant with Luke, we knew that if he was a boy, his name would be Luke (it was our boy name from when I was pregnant with both girls)
When we were figuring out a girl name during his pregnancy, I really loved the name Charlotte.
BUT, I didn’t want another C name because then I would have a K name and 2 C names. That seemed strange to me if I had a Kate, Claire and Charlotte and that 2 out of the 3 names started with a C. I just couldn’t deal with that (I KNOW…I have issues!!!) When I was 38 weeks pregnant, Kevin called me from work one day and said…if it’s a girl, it will be Emma. He liked that name better and I felt so relived that it was not a C name.
Side note….Luke ended up being born at 1:01 am on August 9th. I was really hoping he would be born on August 8, because 8-8-12 is all even numbers unlike his bday of 8-9-12.
And, to top it off, Claire is September 9th, so now I have 2 kids who were born on the 9th of the month, so I have OCD that 2 out of my 3 kids were born on the 9th of the month and not all 3.
Seriously….I told you I have issues…who can relate?!!?
{SEVEN}
During the summer my kids get a bath maybe 1 a week….or every 10 days.
I know…SO BAD.
But, here’s the thing.
The past 3 years California has been in a MAJOR drought.
Last summer we were all placed on water restrictions.
We have a pool and my girls are on swim team, so they were swimming
practically every day in the summer. The chlorine kills germs and cleans them, right?!?!?
practically every day in the summer. The chlorine kills germs and cleans them, right?!?!?
One day last summer, I realized my kids hadn’t had a bath in almost TWO WEEKS.
#MOMFAIL
But, I will let you know that when I got our water bill last August, we had used 46% less since
the year before.
I’m just trying to do my part for the drought.
Swimming totally counts as a bath…rights?!?! 😉
Another laugh out loud for me! haha! I’m sure the chlorine gets rid of any germs and #yourehelpingtheenvironment #winwin
{EIGHT}
I have issues with mayonnaise.
It makes me want to barf.
I can’t have it on my sandwiches.
*SHUDDER*
I do have some recipes that require mayo mixed in…I have gotten better with using it if it’s mixed in, but I used to have Kevin add the mayo to a recipe because it would make me gag.
If I have a recipe that calls for mayo mixed in, I will buy the smallest jar of mayo and then after I use what we need for the recipe, I will throw away the jar of mayo. I can’t even handle having it in my fridge.
I also can’t handle hard boiled eggs. I love eggs….scrambled eggs, fried eggs, eggs benedict, etc.
But hard boiled eggs? NO WAY. I just can’t with the texture….makes my skin crawl.
My biggest nightmare is Deviled Eggs or Egg Salad Sandwiches because they require hard boiled eggs and mayo. EWWWWW.
{NINE}
I am a sponge-a-phob.
Sponges are also known to me as “porous rectangles of germs”
Sponges give me the heeby-jeebies.
I can’t even touch them. They freak me out.
They are nasty germ and dirt traps.
What is that material they are made of?
Gives me the chills.
I avoid sponges like the plague.
I do not and will not have a sponge in my kitchen sink.
For our dishes, I use a scrubber (with a handle, of course)
For our counter tops, I use Granite Wipes or I use Granite Cleaner with washcloths.
It is a great system for our kitchen.
My house is a Sponge Free Zone.
Sponges give me the heeby-jeebies.
I can’t even touch them. They freak me out.
They are nasty germ and dirt traps.
What is that material they are made of?
Gives me the chills.
I avoid sponges like the plague.
I do not and will not have a sponge in my kitchen sink.
For our dishes, I use a scrubber (with a handle, of course)
For our counter tops, I use Granite Wipes or I use Granite Cleaner with washcloths.
It is a great system for our kitchen.
My house is a Sponge Free Zone.
My mother in law thinks this is hysterical and puts a new sponge in my Christmas stocking every year. I throw them away…I can’t handle sponges.
I’m not a sponge girl either. I feel you on this one!!
{TEN}
I am not a morning person. I am a night owl.
I HATE waking up early. I also have a fear of oversleeping and being late.
If I had to get up at 4am to catch a flight, I would rather stay up all night than go to bed early and have to wake up early. It would be easier for me to just stay up until 4 am than set my alarm for 4 am. I always have dreams that I over slept and am late for school.
I set 3 alarms every morning. One alarm on my bedside clock, one alarm on my phone (in case the power goes out and my bedside clock doesn’t work) and another alarm on my back up-back up battery travel alarm clock (in case the power goes out or my phone battery dies and that alarm doesn’t go off)
WOW. I am going to end this right here because it is a nice list of 10 things.
I have more things I could add to this list, but I am just going to end at 10 because that is a nice even number. Plus, if I add anymore of my crazy you will surely un-follow and un-friend me 😉
I promise I am actually a nice, normal person despite all my crazy 🙂
Thanks for having me Erika! I hope we can still be friends despite all my craziness!
I absolutely LOVED your crazy!! Thank you SO much for sharing today, Mel! Make sure to check her out over at The Larson Lingo.
If you’ve missed some past “Owning It” posts, you can check them out here…
You can read Leigh’s @ Balancing By Faith HERE.
You can read Ashley’s @ The Vanilla Tulip HERE.
You can read Kathryn’s HERE.
You can read Elaine’s @ House of Hargove HERE.
You can read Sheaffer’s @ Sheaffer Told Me To HERE.
I absolutely LOVED your crazy!! Thank you SO much for sharing today, Mel! Make sure to check her out over at The Larson Lingo.
If you’ve missed some past “Owning It” posts, you can check them out here…
You can read Leigh’s @ Balancing By Faith HERE.
You can read Ashley’s @ The Vanilla Tulip HERE.
You can read Kathryn’s HERE.
You can read Elaine’s @ House of Hargove HERE.
You can read Sheaffer’s @ Sheaffer Told Me To HERE.
You can read Elise’s @ Cheers Y’all HERE.
You can read Andrea’s @ Momfessionals HERE.
You can read Kelly’s @ Kelly’s Korner HERE.
You can read Olivia’s @ Snyders Tell All HERE.
You can read Narci’s @ Grace and Love Blog HERE.
You can read Fancy Ashley’s HERE.
Happy Thursday, Girls!!
