9 random things in my brain right now
Ken says my mind is a scary place because it never stops. Ever. Which sometimes makes sleeping a challenge. It’d be great to have a switch to flip off, but it is what it is!
So let’s just jump into a little of the randomness that is my brain. In no particular order, these are a handful of topics my mind is jumping ’round and ’round with lately:
1- I’ll need a grandma name.
Since all our future grandkids will end up calling us whatever the first grandchild calls us, I need to think this through! I don’t want a cutesy name, but I also don’t want one that brings to mind a white-haired little old lady – but will still work when I am a white-haired little old lady.
{Though I’m not a big fan of the title Granny, I totally want to be Violet from Downton Abbey when I grow up.}
2- The human body is amazing.
It’s crazy what has to happen in the body just to make a muscle flex. I took this screen shot from one of the online parts of my personal trainer study because it blows my mind!
3- The beach.
We’re eagerly anticipating our next trip, especially with the recent rainy-cold-yucky weather. We’re working on plans to move there someday, too; we just don’t know when “someday” is yet.
4- I’m rocking my personal trainer studies.
I decided to do a practice test about two weeks ago and scored a 72%! That might not sound impressive, but considering I still had 6 chapters left to read at that time, I’m seriously stoked. Now I’ve finished my entire book, so my flashcards and I are BFFs so I can name muscle groups and explain what the golgi tendon organ is and what exercises are contra-indicated for certain medical conditions…
Actually, this is probably mostly what’s in my brain right now because of all this studying! I’ve scheduled my REAL test for next month!!!
5- The baby.
I told Diane I’m either a crazy uterus stalker or an excited grandmother-to-be because I have a pregnancy app on my iPhone and I’m eagerly tracking how the baby is growing! Once we know the baby’s gender, I’m going to have a hard time not buying ALL THE THINGS for this little one.
The first ever picture of my first ever grandbaby:
6- We can have Cousin Camp.
I have friends whose kids spend a week or two every summer with their grandparents, at the same time all the other grandkids visit. They all look forward to “Cousin Camp” every year. How awesome would that be at the beach!? Maybe in a room like this?
If our kids have just two kids each (pretty average), we’ll have ten grandchildren; if they all end up with five kids like we have, we could have 25 grandchildren! That boggles my mind. Maybe we’ll need a bigger bunk!
7- Artsy things.
Kathryn has opened an etsy shop! We’ve talked about how fun it would be to make this into a little joint venture, so I need to get busy creating!
8- My hair.
I’m kind of growing it out but not too much because although I like long hair, I’ll only end up putting in a ponytail pretty much every day. So I’m growing into something along the lines of this or this. But when summer finally gets here I might just go back to this. Because although I do love summer, there’s no way around the humid/sweaty factor here in the South and my fine-but-thick hair does whacky things when the weather is hot and sticky.
9- My anniversary.
Next month Ken and I will celebrate ten years of marriage. Which is really kind of funny when you think about the fact we’re about to become grandparents. I don’t think we’ll be able to actually get away but we’ll celebrate close to home and probably send the kids to my mom’s for the weekend.
What’s on YOUR mind lately?
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Cousin camp sounds awesome! We sort of did that when I was a child – my brother and I, and our two cousins all at our granny’s by the seaside. With even more cousins it would be even more fun! Start buying ALL the things for the baby now – babies don’t really need to be colour-coded, that’s just marketing spiel.
Totally marketing spiel – except for clothes; they hardly make anything that could be gender neutral anymore!
I know my eldest and her husband are thinking babies (they’ve been married almost 3 years), so, like you, I need a COOL grandma name. It’s hard to think of something that is hip, not old, easy to pronounce….Oy! the struggle is real!!! One friend suggested Grand-BA–because I am, well, you know. HAHA. Yeah, not gonna happen, so the quest continues.
Oh, you could SO be a Grand-Bad***. I’m cracking up just thinking about it. And the looks the kid would get saying it. 😉
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Yes yes! I want a switch to flip for my ever-on-going thoughts!! Sometimes I have so much going on in my head that I will verbally, out loud, have to tell myself to stop….maybe there is a little white jacket waiting for me. I became a grandmother in my late 30’s so I didn’t feel like a “grandmother or granny” either. I had a grandmother and a grammy and both of them were old before old so it just didn’t seem like I had earned their respected titles. But….at the time, my precious 60’s year old Sunday School teacher was… Read more »
I will have to look that syndrome up. And I do love coastal Georgia. We love coastal NC, too!
Being a grandparent is awesome. We became one just before Christmas with a beautiful girl and have a grandson due beginning of April. We live in Wales (UK) and years ago I heard the name mamgu (Pronounced Mamgi) its welsh for grandma and I knew that if I ever became a grandparent I would be called Mamgu and I love it. Also shopping is a nightmare I have to avoid baby departments but there is soooooo much lovely stuff.
What a neat and unique-without-being-weird grandmother name! I heard of a Kenyan grandmother name (don’t remember what specific dialect) where grandmother is GoGo. But I don’t think I can quite rock that one. 😉
My mom picked Grams and that has always seemed kinda cool to me.
The weather in Georgia has me longing for the beach too! I grew up in Pensacola and I so miss the sun! Our dream is to one day live on Hilton Head.
Grams is a cute name, but not TOO cute. 🙂
i just became a grandma last week and had spent considerable time trying to come up with my grandma name too, only to find out my son and DIL were shocked I’d even consider anything other than Grandma Hale and refuse to refer to me as anything other than that in their home with the little one, though they generously (!) said I could call myself anything I want. Trying really hard not to be resentful…I’m so not relating to the name Grandma, though I’m so delighted with this little one. It’s especially weird because we’ve always gotten on great… Read more »
I wouldn’t make a big deal out of it because when the little one starts talking, he may call you something entirely different! I know one of my grandmothers picked out a name, but I changed it from MeMaw to MawMaw and that’s how it stayed. Brandon’s grandfather wanted to be GP, for grandpop, but Brandon couldn’t say that and he has been PP for 20-something years now. 😉
Hi Jamie,
Sooo happy about the baby! Great news! Congratulations!
About the grandparents nicknames, well the teacher in me prefers using correct names, and correct spellings, but I always did like “Mimi” only because my oldest nephew [34 years old now] named me “Mimi.” He still does!
Don’t forget that the Acevedo family in Florida continues to pray for your beach home!
It’s the NC country sides for us! Someday!
That cousin camp sounds like loads of fun!
Like you, I am so ready for a new look, I’ll keep you posted!
Have a blessed weekend my friend!