I {heart} Canary Yellow Rockstar in Yoga Pants, herself!

Whew, what a blog post name. :) Today's post is about my favorite 5 bloggers and why. It was quite hard to narrow them down to just 5. I love love love to read blogs. I read a LOT of them. But after about 30 mins of going through them all, I narrowed them down to 5 & would suggest them to anyone!  In no particular order Brittany, Herself Brittany is a humors blogger that is a curvy lady & embraces it. Not only embraces it but encourages other ladies to as well. She has once a week web parties & they are a hoot! Her blog post will make you think, laugh, and embrace self acceptance. I am all about that!! She is like my blog role model! Erin is a super cute & funny blogger! She had great style and some times just blogs the most random things. I love that about her blog! She fully admits that she has nothing special to get out to the blogger world, and that is awesome. I always look forward to what she has to blog.  Love Taza | Rockstar Diaries  What's not to love? Naomi's blog was one of the very first that I followed. She is probably one of the most successful bloggers out there. Made blogging a form of income & she has probably one of the most adorable families ever. I have never wanted to live in a big city. She makes it look easy (with two littles as well)  I want to hang out with this girl in real life! She is a no nonsense gal who will blog about whatever seems to be on her mind. She is super funny & we would either get along great in real life or hate each other. But, I LOVE her via bloggy world and just want to be blogger BFFs.  "most of the time I'm way too loud and say silly, sarcastic things, which some people consider bitchy. Really though, I'm just one of those strange seeds you have to get to know to understand."
^^^ this!
and last but not least....

Krista is a creative lady. She puts God 1st and you can tell that in her posts & blog. She also seems to be a great wife and mother. It is where I found out about this blog challenge and a lot of other really cool things. 
So, there you have it. 5 really great women & their blogs. Totally worth a look see!! 

I was your age once

I really thought about today's prompt. I do not have vivid memories of my childhood. I remember some fun times. Some great times playing with my sister. A lot of arguing too. Some great memories with my Mom & MeeMaw. However, not one particular blog worthy story. A lot of little things. It took me about 48 hours to come up with what I was going to blog about today.  I wanted it to be happy.  The more I thought about it, the more big things were just the bad & sad things. I had a lot of that following me around. A lot of it self induced. Some of it because of others. Maybe it is just because the sad things stand out in your memory more....Which is sad!  I am going to go back to when I was 4-5 years old. I started school at 4 years old. About to turn 5. Most kids didn't go to Pre-K back in the early 80's. So, Kindergarten was my 1st introduction into school & interaction with a large number of children. (outside the kids I grew up with at church)  I should say, I was a shy girl. Never one to jump into the middle of a crowd and assert myself. A people watcher. I cannot say for sure I was this at 4/5 years old. I do know I was shy though.  I remember going to West Side Elementary. Going to the library on the 1st day of school. I had a bright pink bow in my long dark brown hair. (it was the 80's after all)  There was another shy girl. She saw a girl standing in the corner of two bookshelves with a cool bright pink bow in her hair. Her words (told to me years later) "she has to be nice. she has a pink bow in her hair!" Oh to have that kind of openness now!  -M- walked up to me and we were best friends from then until middle school. It was kinda sad that we drifted away in middle school. We were such great friends. I remember having so many sleep overs at her house, when her baby brother was born, trying flaky can biscuits for the first time (I had always had from scratch), and listening to Michael Jackson for the 1st time.  I really wish I had a photo of -M- and I, but I don't. I will always cherish the 6 years of best friendship we had though. The introduction into being and having a best friend. My son starts Kindergarten this fall. Although he is NOT shy and is very good at making friends, I cannot help but hope that he makes a true friendship like I did when I was a little girl.  -------------------------------------------

Day 18, Saturday: 

Tell a story from your childhood. Dig deep and try to be descriptive about what you remember and how you felt.

It's Okay | 001

Maybe by now you are finding out that I ♥ a good linky. Anything that gets me to talk about what is going on or has gone on in a clever way. I am all about that. Sometimes this 3rd shift brain just doesn't do cleaver.  Enters...

All you have to do is type up a post listing what's OK with you, grab the button for your post, and come back to link up.

IT'S OKAY TO...
- have had that occasional "no-no" foods. Even though they made me itch every time this week. 
- didn't work out every day this week.
- said "no" in order to take better care of myself
- to have written that blog post about my dad. I keep wanting to delete it. 
- to have been glad the pup got nurtured. That was one day of not house training! 
- to be happy in being the bigger person. I quite enjoyed sitting back and letting that person pitch their fits & ask for validation of their perceived importance. 
- To wish my weeks away for the weekends!!
- To constantly think "that would make a good blog post!" lol
Happy Thursday everyone!!! ♥ - La'Shawn

My Lot in Life

I would be lying if I said I had an easy life. I was poor & from a broken home. However, I never let that make me who I am. I always thought those were circumstances. You rise above them and be better in spite of. I have always tried to be La'Shawn despite what was going on around me. Today's post is 

Day 16, Thursday:  Something difficult about your "lot in life" and how you're working to overcome it

I am not really sure I have a "lot in life." I thought a few things. I do not have contact with vital family members. Working 3rd shift as a wife and a mother. Not reaching the dream that I have in life yet. I've talked about these things though. The things that is most in my mind right now is the medical things I have been dealing with.    For years, I have always felt blah. Always tired. Always headachy. So on. I have been recently told I have a yeast allergy. or yeast intolerance. My body doesn't process yeast like most. This has been since I my gallbladder taken out. Since then I have had these symptoms: - migrains/headaches (I've always had these. But everyday after this) - dizziness  - itchy all over (with no rash)  - constant yeast infections  -shortness of breath -fatigue  - and just plain feel like yucky!!  So, after going to 4 different doctors. This is what I have been told I have. What does that mean? No medicine. I have to change my entire way of eating. (Which I was doing anyway) Clean eating for me. No enriched flower, no starches, no sugars, & nothing fermented. Short list? Well, when you think of what all that covers...it is LONG! 
Here are a few Yeast breads, rolls, (especially homemade)  Sourdough Breads  Sweet Yeast breads (cinnamon rolls, raised doughnuts, ect)  Vingear..anything pickled  Catsup  Mustard  Pickles  Relishes  Salad Dressings  Sauerkraut  Fermented Beverages: Whiskey Wine Brandy Gin Rum Beer Root Beer  Mushrooms,  Truffles,  Morels Aged Cheese: Yogurt Sour cream Cottage cheese  Dried Fruits,  Jerky and other dried meats.  Also of course includes all the good things. Cakes & candies and stuff.  How am I dealing? fine. I like the foods I can eat. ;) I will make it. If it means I feel better. I will gladly not eat pickles and cheese!  -------------------------------------

Ten Things

There was a reason I skipped last weeks 10 things Tuesday link up. It was basically the exact same thing as today's prompt. Well not basically. It is.  TEN THINGS THAT MAKE YOU REALLY HAPPY
1. Being with my guys. Even the furry one. (who's shocked?!)

2. Snuggling with a good book.
3. A day off of work.

4. A great cup of coffee.

5. Spending money on my obsessions (clothes & digiscrap) 

6. Having a confident day.

7. A beautiful day. Be it rainy or sunny. I like them both. 

8. Sitting on the back porch with my man. ♥

9. Speaking of my man. I love date nights!
10. I have the best family & friends ever! It's true. 

I'm Sorry...So Sorry!

I guess that really today's prompt would have been good for what I wrote yesterday too. But, I have other things that would easily work for today's post. Happy Monday by the way!  I would like to say I am sorry to my friends and family. 
I am sorry for being the family flake. For being the last to arrive. Usually always late. Always with an excuse. I hate being that family member that has to be told an event is 30 mins to an hour earlier than what it is so I show up on time. I am sorry that I cancel get together's and lunches for being sick or too tired.  I really am sick & I really am tired. You guys are more important though. We are not promised our next breath. I am sorry for taking for granted that we all will be here for ever. 

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Day 13, Monday:  Issue a public apology. This can be as funny or as serious or as creative as you want it to be.

I Miss my Dad

Okay, so I realized that a lot of my posts are fluff. Just the sugar coating of my life. I promise you though, my life isn't sugar coated. I keep a lot of these things out of the blog for a reason. Not to make my life seem better than what it is. I could care if my life measured up to other people's standards of "good" or "bad." Yep, I do understand that I am putting myself out there. That by doing so, I am in a way asking for those measured ups & opinions. The reason I don't is not to air things that involve other people out for everyone else to see. However, I want to say some things....with discretion. With that being said... I miss my Dad.  3 years a go this summer we had a huge falling out. It was over something big. However, something that had nothing to do with me. Well, it had to do with ones I love & protect. But honestly, I didn't have to step in. I did though. Things got out of hand pretty quick. Things were said that shouldn't have been said. Not by my Dad. He just shut down. Like most men down when a woman is ranting and raving like a lunatic at them. I said words that as they were leaving the tip of my tongue, I knew they were ones that shouldn't have been said.  Those words cannot be taken back. I've done my apologizing & tried to rebuild those bridges that I helped burn. We are made from some stubborn stock though. It will take a lot of time & healing to get back to where we were. To be able to call up any weekend with "Can I come over?" Hang out on the back porch and have dinner with the family. Or sit inside and talk for hours and watch TV.  I have always wanted to be a Daddy's girl. My whole life. That is why the pain is even harder for me. (I am not saying all this to discount the amazing things my step-dad has done for me and my family!!) I pray every day that me and my Dad can have a relationship again.  I miss my Dad!  ------------------------------------------- Day 12, Sunday: 

What do you miss? (a person, a thing, a place, a time of your life...)

No photos today. I feel out of respect for that part of my family, I will not post photos of them. I do not know their feelings of me posting photos of them for the world to see.