You Remind Me Of The Babe...

My name is Katy, I'm the momma of a precocious toddler, W. I have a bachelors degree in fine arts and art history, but for now I stay at home with my son. My husband is in the military and we live in New York. We've been married for over 5 years and I'm thankful to have him as my rock. My blog is just anything I find interesting or funny and random stuff about my family.This is kind of a mommy blog and kind of not. My philosophy about the Tumblr parenting community: live and let live, peoples is peoples, try not to be an asshole about the way other people live their lives because you aren't in their shoes. That's it!

[sixpenceee]

Bill Nye the Science Guy walking the catwalk at New York Men’s Fashion Week 2017 

[raisingmybosboy]

Just wanted to stop

in and do a quick photo update...

[raisingmybosboy]

Baby dog/pee pee terrorist, Codename:Lily

[raisingmybosboy]

Family. ❤️

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8months plus some days pregnant, baby numero dos.

[raisingmybosboy]

Yo!

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“I’m an insect keeper but my animals rarely reach the one year mark. We make it special when they do.” posted by reddit user HWDylan

[iv-sae]

I’m sad. This has made a little less sad.

[raisingmybosboy]

Dumbledore: After all this time?

Snape: Always

Dumbledore: Yikes..

[themiseducationofb]

People will stare. Make it worth their while → Dennis Basso | Pre-Fall ‘16

[raisingmybosboy]

My fave

[best-of-memes]

[werenotthatlucky]

@13doomsayer56

[huffpostentertainment]

Anti-Trump street art reminds us there is still some good in this world. Our fave is Trump as a treasure troll – cuz of the hair, obv.

[raisingmybosboy]

[ilterzouomo]

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[neil-gaiman]

Only 22 days left to listen to the 6 episodes… http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r527b

This works wherever you are in the world, if you use a computer. you’ll need an app if you want to listen on a phone and are out of the UK, though.

[raisingmybosboy]

I have all the days to listen to all 6 episodes...I own them! *diabolical laughter ensues*

[raisingmybosboy]

My bf and I.

[acutelesbian]

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

[fat-thin-skinny]

this fucks me up every single time

[acutelesbian]

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

[conceitedtrash]

This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now

[sixpenceee]

This amazing technicolor castle has been abandoned for more than 20 years

The Castello di Sammezzano is a show-stopper, a jaw-dropper. Hidden away in the Tuscan hills of Northern Italy, this electrifyingly beautiful Moorish castle was built a whopping 400+ years ago in 1605, but for more than two decades, it’s been sitting empty, neglected, vulnerable to vandalism and to the elements.

There are 365 rooms in the Castello di Sammazzano, one for every day of the year. The Moroccan-style palatial villa is a labyrinthe of exquisitely tiled rooms, each one intricately unique. Originally built by a Spanish noble, Ximenes of Aragon in the 17th century, it wasn’t until the 19th century that the castle would find its arabian identity and be transformed into the etherial palace it resembles today.

You can read about the history here.

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[rachelejohnson]

fucking swoon. I’d die to see this beauty.