This One's For You

A letter of my choice.

Dear friends, family and other blog readers,

This is my last letter for January. I've really enjoyed this writing challenge. It feels good to tap into this part of my brain and to push myself to think of words. Something I would do differently is give a little more thought to each one. I really only had about 24 hours to think about what I would write and reflecting back, I wish I had a little more thinking time. Something I enjoyed was the comments left on my Facebook and Twitter posts and the couple that I got on my blog.

Thank you for reading. I'm going to take tomorrow off and hopefully find something new to write about for the month of February.

xoxo

Susan

Susan "I Had Nothing To Offer Anybody Except My Own Confusion" B.

Mi Loca Familia

A letter to my family as a whole,

Dear Dad, Mom, Jason, Abby, Eric, Christa, Maddi, Lily, Eric, Lizzie, and July,

I love you guys. I don't know if I tell you that enough, but I 100% do. Do you ever hear people say, "I love my family!" or "I have the best family!". When I hear someone say this I usually think, "Do you?". Then you haven't met my family. Cause if you had, you would realize that I have the best family.

How much fun do we have? Huh? LOADS! I love our family time. We always do something fun. We always laugh and joke and act silly. I enjoy that our beliefs differ sightly but never cause contention, judgment or arguments.

Thank you. For supporting me, for feeding me, for always having a place for me to rest my head. Thank you for letting me spoil your children and attempt to be the best aunt this world has ever seen. Thank you for making me feel a part of your individual families. It has been my honor.

I'm so glad we don't argue. You don't know how much I love that we aren't the type of family that stops speaking to each other. How sad would that be? Awful.

I love you all. With ever fiber of my being.

xoxo

Susan "Families Are Forever" B.

Heads Up!

I have a new header. Look, I'm still new to this whole blog thing. I realize that my header is not perfect. But I really like the pictures and I made it look as good as I can. So, the photo was taken by my incredibly talented best friend, Kaylene. We did a whole photo shoot and I loved it!

Kaylene and I

The drawing of me riding a book cart was sketched by my artistically gifted brother. I texted him and told him what I wanted the picture to look like. He did it better than what I told him. Please notice the book that fell off the book cart. It is titled 'Frisbee' by Eric Bergreen. This is an actual story that anyone can read. Go to smashwords.com or Barnes and Noble ebooks to find it. You can purchase it for the low, low price of $2.99. It's a great murder mystery based loosely on the neighborhood my brothers and I grew up in. It includes all the kids we hung out with. I make an appearance in the story. You will recognize me as 'the thumb sucker'. My oldest brother Jason, he's a writer too. He's been working as a journalist for years. Just recently (like last week) he made a career change. Google his name and you will find all kinds of great articles he's written.

Eric, Me, Jason

I love these guys

I have been watching the riots going on in London. I think they have things pretty much under control now. My brother, Eric said they were rioting because they found out I was coming. Jason told me that the riots are a 'celebration' just for me. Not much longer now. 16 more days.

Susan 'the thumb sucker' B.