OR!....

I saw this article and thought:  "Why do I need this App?  I will just go get a picture  from when I was High School and look at it for free!!"

Be Brave People

Cassity's Christmas Paternity Test

If you know our daughter Cassity, you know that she is not your average 10 year old.  Cass loves history and genealogy. She and my mom are interested in learning about our family's history.  They share a membership to ancestry.com and watch shows like WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? This child enjoys sipping coffee and watching the news for the weather report.

I am not kidding.




This year, my parents got Cassity a DNA test for Christmas.

At least, that is what she is telling everyone. EVERYONE!


She is correct, they did get her a DNA test but NOT the kind of DNA test that most of us are used to hearing about.




No..no..no....Not the Maury Show kind of DNA test.... not a Paternity Test!!!!!


..but the kind from Ancestry.com


Ancestry.com has  assembled one of the most comprehensive DNA datasets from around the world to compare to your DNA signature and help determine your ethnicity..



FYI: Her results are in!!  She is 100% European
Broken down, her results were:
42% Europe West
21% Scandinavia
21% Ireland
7% Great Britain
4% unidentified regions



So if you aren't trecking with me yet, the funny part of this is:


Cassity is too sweet and innocent to know that she needs to clarify a minor detail when she tells teachers, youth leaders, and random strangers that she received a DNA test for Christmas.


She doesn't know about The Maury Show or about paternity testing.


She doesn't understand that when she tells people that she received a DNA test for Christmas that people are lead to believe that ....perhaps... Adam is NOT her father and Leslie is a real tramp.





I would like to publically clarify, once and for all, that Adam IS 100% Cassity's father.











Merry Christmas

A Mother's Christmas List

Free Yo Mind

Come with me, back 20 years to 19 and 94.

First, I have known my bff Abby since God was a boy.  In true small town fashion her first cousin married my first cousin, so we like to think that we are now family.  Abby is a High School English teacher and probably the funniest living person I know.

Anywho..

Picture it.

There we sit in my bedroom floor, frantically flipping through  SEVENTEEN magazine (with Luke Perry on the cover) reading our horoscope and finding out what our lucky numbers would be for that month and taking quizzes to determine if a certain boy we liked-actually liked us too!




Listening to FREE YOUR MIND by EnVogue on repeat.

I absolutely love that this song was our theme song.  After carefully listening to the lyrics and with consideration of where we grew up, (Small town Eastern Kentucky) I believe it is the lyrics of this song that made us so culturally diverse. Worldly, even.

To imagine 2 of the most stereo typical white 13 year old girls singing these words into their hair brushes in the middle of Appalachia could easily be a made for TV, after school specials. (That they don't even make anymore.)


Oh the stories.

I will tell them all here and change the names to protect the guilty.  Naturally.

‪#‎freeyourmind‬ ‪#‎therestwillfollow‬

Funny Schmidt

If you can not see this video then click here

New Girl

(I do not own this photo.)

New Girl  IS the "Friends" of our generation and my personal favorite show.

Jess, Nick, Schmit, CiCi, Winston and Coach are five characters that anyone in their late 20's-early 30s can relate to.  From the pilot episode, there is an instant connection with the cast of characters because-well, we went to high school with these characters!

 Each character from this show brings a personality that makes it entertaining for everyone!  New Girl is filled with generational references from our glory days gone by. The writers have flawlessly intertwined cultural references from the 1990's from Larry Appleton to Lisa Loeb to Curly Sue to Cotton-eyed Joe.

Jess (a school teacher)  moves in with 4 guys she found through Craig's List, in an apartment in LA. The show follows Jess and her best friend (from childhood) CiCi (a model) and their lives with these four very different guys.  They are all collectively trying to find their way into adulthood and it is hilarious.

I will occasionally write about something that happens on the show and wanted to go ahead and give you some background so that you will be able to follow along!


If you have Netflix then I highly suggest that you spend your free time catching up on all 3 seasons because you have been missing out.