Tuesday, November 9, 2010

I'm New At This.

So after a long lunch with a couple of colleagues, I've decided to give this whole "blogging" thing a try.  It's a good way to record the funny things my kids say, vent some of my frustrations, and have a way to hold myself accountable to things like dieting, exercise, and having some "me" time.

I'm not saying this will be an everyday thing, but I'm hoping that I can re-visit posts and get some insight into what I was thinking at certian times of my life.  Even if no one reads this, I promise to have fun in the process!

So a little bit about me.  I grew up in Colorado - about 1,100 miles from my current Indiana home.  People always ask me, "Why on earth did you move to Indiana from Colorado?"  My canned answer is that I came to Indiana on a sports scholarship to Purdue University and met my future husband.  He happened to be a farmer and "farmers don't move".  That's how I got here.  They ask about the transition from city to country.  It was not nearly as dramatic as you might think.  I went through culture shock when I moved out here for college.  My stuck-up-18-year-old-self thought that no where on earth could be as good as where I came from.  Then I experienced my first Indiana fall.  There were actually COLORS and it was beautiful.  I loved it here.  Then I experienced my first Indiana winter.  Not so beautiful. My first January in Indiana, Purdue cancelled classes because the windchill was 30 degrees below zero.  I distinctly remember snot freezing my nostrils shut.  As many hills as I have skiied down, that never happened to me when in Colorado. We'll talk more about that transition in another post.

I'm the mother of three children.  The oldest is 8 years old and for the sake of his annonimity, let's call him "Big Man".  Then I have a beautiful 5 year old daughter we'll call "Sis". Then the "Little Man" of the family is now 14 months old.  Most of the posts, I can imagine, will be about the older two.  But the Little Man has been a source of some serious laughs these days.

Backing up a few years, I should introduce my husband.  He's a third generation corn and soybean farmer here in West Central Indiana.  He is part of a partnership with his two brothers and together they have experienced some great opportunities to build their business in the last few years.  I've learned A LOT (ok - I've learned everything I know) about farming from my wonderful husband over the last twelve and a half years.  We've been married for 9 and a half years now and finally feel like our relationship is clicking on all cylinders. 

We've got a few exciting projects happening in our lives right now.  Our family is building a new home, we're traveling back to Colorado for the holidays, and we're nearly done with the harvest of 2010. 

I look forward to any comments you might share and insights in how to deal with my city-girl-turned-country blunders.  I won't be posting too much about cooking or cleaning, since those are two of my least favorite things to do.  So thank you Denise and Mary Beth, and Happy Blogging!

9 comments:

  1. I feel honored to be your first comment and follower! You're not a blogging virgin anymore!
    Welcome to the blogosphere!

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  2. Your reasons for starting your blog are pretty much the same as mine - to have a reference point! I have had a blast doing mine and honestly didn't think I would!
    Just have FUN with it!

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  3. haha. Laughing at the comment "farmers don't move." I teach, and my superintendent gave some of us a hard time for not living in the district, but most of us who don't live here are farm wives!!!

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  4. Always glad to meet a fellow Boiler in the Blogsphere. And I loved fall time on campus too! Stop by for a Latte' sometime and we can swop stories.

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  5. Welcome! Can't wait to know more about the non-Purdue side of you!

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  6. Hi Danica! Welcome to the blogosphere! Come by and visit me at hoosierfarmbabe.blogspot.com Looking forward to keeping up with you on here!

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  7. Welcome to the blogosphere!! Glad you've been bit by the bug :)

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  8. Welcome!! Blogging is a good "creative" outlet. Mine is fencerowtofencerow.blogpsot.com

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  9. Farmers don't move and neither do townies! I would know. :) Thanks for sharing your blog with me. I'm at countryfriendfarmersdaughter.blogspot.com.

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