Tuesday, August 17, 2010

When you make your private life public..


I know this is the second post in a day but this is something I feel I need to talk about. When is making your private life available to the public okay? When is bashing your husband or wife on the internet for hundreds of your friends and family to see okay? When is allowing others to judge only ONE side of the man or woman you married okay?
I have seen women, in particular, bashing their husbands all over facebook.  One minute they're getting divorced, the next day they're working it out, and then two days later they're getting divorced.  Now, I'm not going to lie this drama has kept me rather entertained. I can't help but to log in and read the comments these particular people are posting but is it right? Absolutely not! I understand that divorce happens. People change and people grow apart but you got married at 20 years old and you knew the guy for 2 weeks before marrying him. Am I surprised? No. Do I feel sorry for you and your soon to be ex-husband? No. Do I feel sorry for you innocent children? Yes, they're innocent by-standers. Do I feel sorry for your husband because you're online all day everyday talking about how he did you wrong? Yes, because it should remain between you and your husband!! 

Remember those vows you took, the ones that said for BETTER or for WORSE?!?! Well when things get worse you have to keep chugging  along and work on your marriage. Marriage is WORK. It's HARD WORK. You're not going to wake up tomorrow and have everything you ever wanted handed to you on a silver platter. And if you did have everything handed to you how would it be rewarding?! I mean do you really think that you're the only woman in the world who has had struggles in marriage? If you do you need to grow up. Every relationship has struggles whether it be marriage, friendship, or family issues will arise at some point and you have to be adult enough to handle them. I can tell you for sure that getting on facebook and posting status updates about how horrible your spouse is, is not the adult way to handle the issues. 

I understand that there are certainly times when you should get divorced. Maybe he's abusive, or maybe he's committed adultery and you can't move past it. However, I don't understand why you feel the need to tell the entire world what he/she has done to you? I firmly believe that once you have made your decision it's best to talk to your family and friends about your decision and why you made the decision you've made but is it right to tell people you knew 4 years ago in high school? Probably not. Out of respect for your children you should respect your soon to be ex on the internet because at the end of the day two wrongs don't make a right. 

I really don't understand why so many people feel that it's okay to reveal more to the FB/Twitter world than they would their grandmother. Yes, it's a free country and we have the right to say what we want when we want it but what happened to self respect? In my opinion the only person they're really making look bad by publicly bashing their soon to be ex is themselves! 

Have you seen this with your FB friends? What have you done about it? Deleted them? Ignored them? Read all of their posts for entertainment? Sent in a letter to TLC stating that they should have their own TV show because they've got more drama then Jon and Kate?!?!

Must learn to say no..


Words of wisdom - Don't say yes to driving your friends mom 16 hours in a car without really knowing the person first.  Mr. and I went to Palm Springs for the weekend for a little bit of business and a lot of play and we drove my friends mom down with us (she flew back, thank God!) the woman didn't stop talking for more than 20 seconds the entire 16 hours.  I felt so bad for Mr. He is the quite type and usually on long drives we listen to music and talk about random stuff here and there but overall the drive is pretty quite and we just enjoy the silence.. Not this time. The last 100 miles he gave me many death glares. We will never be the nice guys and say yes again.

Overall though we had an awesome trip! We had the opportunity to talk to some people who are doing really awesome things in my company and I learned so much! We really were able to spend a lot of quality time with amazing people and a lot of time laying by the pool with yummy drinks! Although, Mr. did get caught sneaking his own beer in to the pool.. He was just asked to take it back up to the room. We are both already looking forward to our trip next summer but we will be flying! I don't have any pictures yet but I'll be sure to post some in the next couple of days after I steal some from others who went too! 

How was your weekend? Did you do anything fun?

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Bridesmaids Gifts!


I realize that I still have 9 months to worry about this but considering I have seven - yes, you read that right, seven bridesmaids - I wanted to get started early and collect one or two things at a time to give them all a totally awesome gift for being my very best friends and stand up there with me on my special day!

What would you be thrilled to receive as a BM gift? I'm looking for some out of the box idea's... What did you give your BM's?

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Top 2 Tuesday


It's Tuesday... That means it's time for one of my favorite blog hops hosted by Taylor.  


This week The Undomestic Mama is doing Top 2 Tips!

The tips can be about anything so make sure you pick yours and link up!! 


1) My first tip is to spend more time loving and laughing than fighting and crying.  You never know who will be here tomorrow or even this evening.  Love like crazy and enjoy every moment you have with those that you love.

Love Pictures, Images and Photos
Love Pictures, Images and Photos
photography Pictures, Images and Photos
love Pictures, Images and Photos
Lovely Pictures, Images and Photos
love U Pictures, Images and Photos
Sprinkle LOve Pictures, Images and Photos
love Pictures, Images and Photos

2) My second tip is on keeping your lips in great condition! I am a firm believer that this stuff keeps my lips soft and un-chapped. I love the tingling/cooling feeling when you first put it on.

chapstick Pictures, Images and Photos

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Lets talk wedding flowers....


I am over the moon excited to tell you all that we have found a florist that I L.O.V.E.!!! Although, she projected our overall floral expense about $1400 more than I wanted to spend Mr. has approved me to up our floral budget by $900. SCORE! :D This girl is happy!

So the florist we chose is so incredibly artsy and creative! My mom and I met with her Saturday morning and our hour consult went for almost two hours.  She gave us so many ideas! She really took the time to find out what kind of flowers I love and what I really don't love. On top of all of that she also took the time to show me different options for the seating at the reception and even told me that if I had an issue with our vendor doing the layout I wanted that she'd "take care of it"! She made sure to show me how we could reuse the alter arrangements on the head table and how we could reuse the bridesmaid's bouquets on the head table as well. 

I left the consult feeling overwhelmed in a great way! I felt as if she got my vision and enhanced it. I felt confident that she would make me very happy on our wedding day.  I know that having her do our floral is going to ease so much stress for me the week of the wedding!

Now if only we can find a little extra cash for a videographer...