keep in mind that for 6 years, i was the only girl in my family.
i had an older brother and 4 boy cousins to
contrary to the evidence before you, i was actually a very happy child.
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ArvzS-QFMzY/UT981Cnz8jI/AAAAAAAABnA/m5PKgn-UhNw/photo_998399.jpg)
i've been a water bug for as long as i can remember and then some.
apparently, i also had the "stink eye" down pat.
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D4_76U0Xg-8/UT981soN2eI/AAAAAAAABnI/iUvm950qmr0/photo_850946.jpg)
i was a beach BABE, obvi.
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ECAmvyKGgxk/UT981_-k5MI/AAAAAAAABnQ/AJme40_CPXo/photo_584426.jpg)
and loved building sand castles with my big brother. he's slimmed up since then, ladies.
lil' chunky monkey.
![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-z9yzNVJ2dSw/UT982WNDmqI/AAAAAAAABnY/Ug6-Pr6ClOg/photo_863052.jpg)
music runs in my blood. i'm pretty sure i came out of the womb screaming the hallelujah chorus. i also not-so-secretly wish that my life was a musical.
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M4fvzqyGJJY/UT982w-c_zI/AAAAAAAABng/Fk1S26JWvM4/photo_599759.jpg)
i was a little girl who grew up in a culture that expected you to be a wife, mother, and mini martha stewart by the time you graduated from college. i have checked none of these requirements off my list. guess i need to move out of the south.
![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Iw51zgaCIL8/UT983H7cVbI/AAAAAAAABno/5DeBWrY5M-I/photo_939561.jpg)
this cheesy grin and squinty eyed smile is apparently my go to. it is still my first reaction to a camera being pointed at my face. and my bashful brother still pretends to be camera shy to this day.
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TnMkG7vYXyg/UT983_eofXI/AAAAAAAABnw/-0j-B_makds/photo_50531.jpg)
something you never would have guessed about me: i was an avid fisherman. the brother, the cousins, and i went fishing ALL the time. but since there really was a princess behind that tomboy facade, i made the boys take the fish off the hook. every time. until this one time my friend's grandfather made me do it myself. i was 5. it was traumatizing. i still remember the look in that fish's eye...
![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-u1eZhjRakCA/UT984PooEpI/AAAAAAAABn4/JeaecnNhljU/photo_570928.jpg)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
p.s. don't forget our first book club post will be tomorrow! please join in!
haha the south- gotta love it :) I grew up in the south too. and while i'm not much of a southern woman at all, there's always a soft spot in my heart for those things. can't even help it.
that stank eye...ballin'!
Girl i'm a true southerner too...and i haven't lived up to the standards either...and sometimes it makes me feel less of a woman because i'm not married with kids on the way...ya know? ha.
I've had a similar traumatizing fish story ha, the things that stick with us over the years
Post a Comment