Momma Etches

I know you've all heard the cliche "my mum is the best mum in the whole world" well unless your mum was Mother Theresa or Mother Mary or  someone as cool/righteous as them sorry to say your mum is probably not as good as mine! Just sayin'
There's so much to say about my mum that I'm only going to able to cover a few of my favourite things about her:

1. she is the biggest donny osmond fan. you may think that your mum or some other lady you know is the biggest donny fan, but alas you would be wrong, again lol.
2. she makes THE best batispms cakes ever! she makes them look like golden plates! i wish i had a photo to show you all how cool they look...i'm so gunna use that idea for when my future children get baptised, for reals!
3. so many people say i'm a spitting image of my mum and i'm pretty awesome so therefore my mum is awesome!  my nickname is mini-ME (ME is my mum's initials...clever i know!)
4. she is so loving and will do anything for us as a family and at times (ok a lot of the time) us as children take that for granted.
5. she is a super mum! she works so hard and always makes time to spend time with us.
6. she always is willing to serve others.
7. we have such a laugh when we chat and i can honestly talk to her about everything. she is such a goof and i blame/thank her for my quirky-ness
8. this woman knows how to party when given the opportunity! it's so funny that when she was my age she was organizing huge dances and activities and that's the kinda stuff i love doing too! whenever i have parties she loves to help out which i love her for!
9. 99.9% she's right about things when it comes to advice about guys and friends (yes i still chat to my momma about that kind of stuff)
and finally 10. i know that she was meant to be my mum and to help me and the rest of my siblings learn and grow.

I love you mum!

Oh and another thing a love doing with my mum...singing to classic songs. This one's our fave!! ENJOY!

Ketchup + Awkward Eye Contact = Huge Ego Booster

Ever have those days where you didn’t expect something to happen that makes you smile and it just makes you smile even more? Yeah that happened to me this week. I was hanging out with my sister and a few of my close friends doing errands and we got hungry...it happens lol. So we went to 5 Guys, Burgers and Fries.
For those who do not know, I love ketchup...actually LOVE it! There wasn’t enough ketchup at the table for the amount of fries there was to eat, so naturally I go and get some more from the dispenser up front. So I’m minding my own business getting my ketchup and this guy comes up beside me and uses the other ketchup dispenser. He looked in his mid-twenties, tall, a little stubble, and of course pretty dang cute. We make quick eye contact and I look away (eye contact makes me SUPER nervous and I freak out on the inside). Then I noticed he missed dispensing the ketchup into his container and he says “oops, I guess I wasn’t paying attention” while he was looking at me. Guess what I said?! “It’s all good” and I walked away. Who says that when a guy is trying to make small talk? Clearly this girl does! So we’re eating away and I turned around and there was the same guy sitting behind me, so I flashed him my pearly whites and he showed me his (that’s probably sounds dirtier than intended so get your mind out of the gutter for goodness sake!) Oh and he had a little toddler with him too! Good thing I love kids!! I totally thought of a pickup line...something like "Hey, so I like kids" or something like that lol. So to keep it short I got giddy while I ate then when we finished we got up to leave. We walked by his table and I smiled at him and he smiles back but again I can’t keep eye contact for much longer than a second. My sister said that as we walked away she saw that he kept his eyes on me smiling.
So I’ll probably never see him again or if the one in a million chance that it happens I may or may not remember his face... oh well. It wasn’t a huge deal except the fact that it made my day and I looked so scruffy that day (baggy-but-cute shirt, hair in a pony and minimal make up). Gotta love things like that, total boost to the ego! And in honour of speaking of egos and my close friends that I was with that day here’s a little Beyoncé...Promise me you dance to this while you watch it. (and for those who are super sensitive I'm sorry if this is too hawt for you to handle lol)