Arabella Story - All's well that ends well

             I don't have any extra available focus/concentration 

             to write a decent blog post myself, but I can retype this  

             lovely story Arabella created in preschool today 

              (her preschool in Roseville, CA by the way - just throwing that out there since this is a Roseville mom blog and I'm trying to organically get Google to 

              pick up on that fact):

Once upon a time there was a princess named Cinderella and a princess named Snow White, and a princess named Bambi. 

And dragons were flying and going "pht, pht, pht." 

And then princesses went into a castle. 

And then they saw something big, dark and scary. 

And it was just their pet cat. 

The end. 

The author on her porch - possibly contemplating future creative literary endeavors.

Arabella before & after with Pixlr -o- matic

I love Pixlr-O-Matic - I know everyone else in the world uses Instagram, but I needed something I can use on the desktop computer too and it only works on phones. So I was searching apps in the Chrome Web Store and came across Pixlr-O-Matic which is super simple and easy to use even for me - it's the antiPhotoshop.  

Here's a pic of Arabella that I am particularly in love with: 

Before

After

Can't believe I finally stopped procrastinating and made a blog!

I finally did it!  I thought I was going to give up at just the title, but after 2 hours on thesaurus.com looking for the perfect verb for a "-ingArabella" idea, the title "what Arabella did" popped into my head.  I assume just about everybody that is reading this will be family and friends that already know me, but just in case this blog takes off and I become the next Pioneer Woman or Momastery, here's a little about me: I'm a work-at-home mom (real estate appraiser) to my darling daughter Arabella, age 2.5 years and wife to my stay-at-home husband Keith. We live in Roseville, CA in a bungalow at the house next to Mango Street. Even though being around each other all day can be stressful, I wouldn't give up this opportunity to be with my family for the world. I think this blog is going to be mostly about parenting, and recording Arabella's adventures and stories for posterity but who knows where inspiration will strike.  My goal is to post consistently at least, even if my posts aren't especially profound or prolific. Done is better than perfect.  And that's all I have time to write for now. Yay - I am now officially a mommy blogger!