Before we go any further down this road of getting to know each other, there are some things that I thought you should know about me…1) I saved Eartha Kitt's dog.2) Little Jimmy Dickens saved my dog.3) I live in a log cabin that was a tollhouse in the 1830s.4) I fell off a cliff in a car, landed in the ocean {and lived to tell about it}.5) I leave my Christmas decorations up until Valentine's Day.6) I am psychic {psycho to my close friends}, so watch what you think about me {I can hear you}.7) I was being discharged from the hospital on September 11, 2001 in New York City.  My uterus had ruptured while giving birth, and the doctors saved my newborn and me in 4 minutes. While coming to the hospital to take us home, my husband and one year old daughter witnessed the planes hitting the World Trade Center.8) In Raleigh {a city of over 400,000 people}, I moved out of the same house that my future husband moved into next {before we knew each other}.  Before he met me he got my junk mail, now he just gets my junk.9) If you can’t find me behind my camera, I might be on the tennis court {and you may not want to get too close}.10) Without knowing who he was, I gave Prince Edward $5 off discount coupon advice in a store in NYC. He was very sweet about it, with his gorgeous British accent {and his laugh}.11) In college, I rode through a car ...

   It was the night before camp and I was that tired mom, the one who runs around the house at midnight trying to gather everything the kids could possibly need to spend a week away from home. I logged on to the camp website to see if there was anything I had forgotten, and there "it" was staring me straight in the face.  Number one on the list of things to pack - "a great attitude".  It was the answer I had been trying to find. I knew something had been missing from our house, but couldn't quite put my finger on what it was until I saw that list. The girls must have accidentally left their "great attitude" at camp the year before, along with that bathing suit and sandal that I could no longer find. I needed to get it back and I needed to get it back quickly, so I decided the best thing for me to do would be to write a letter to plea my case.Dear "Great Attitude",  I am sorry to say I didn't know how good we had it when you were living with us. Please come home. Can it really be so fun there all alone at camp with the cobwebs and spiders? How about the lumpy mattress you have been sleeping on and the lack of air conditioning? If you come home, I promise to try not to embarrass you quite as much in the carpool lane by singing the wrong lyrics to songs that blare a little too loudly from the open windows of my car.  I also ...

  This is my porch ... my sleeping porch.  In it you can find three beds waiting for you to crawl in and read a book, take a nap, or watch for squirrels. {that is if you can get past the guard} Shot with my iPhone 

Those who know me, know that I take my camera everywhere.  This shot took "taking my camera everywhere" to the limit...