About

Welcome.

Hi! I’m Kandace.

And this is my blog.

A little about me (since you asked and all).

I was born into this world in a suburb of Seattle at the end of the summer of 1978 where my parents were busy raising 3 other children. Even before my arrival they were exhausted and could hardly stand the thought of another bottom to wipe, but they had no choice, I chose them to be my parents and as luck would have it wiping my bottom was a prerequisite to taking me home from the hospital.

My mother chose not to breastfeed and nearly killed me whilst feeding me the Soy Formula the doctor recommended since I would not gain weight properly which resulted in a lengthy stay at Children’s Hospital where the staff proceeded to save my life. At one point they gave me 5 days to live, not at all dramatic, am I?

Unfortunately for me, the early months of my life documents the only time in which gaining weight was a challenge, from that moment on I have always excelled in the field of gaining weight.

My childhood was average, uneventful and ultimately when I learned how to succeed in the field of living under the radar. When you are the last of 4 children you get doted over and petted like an animal constantly the attention can become quite a drag. In early childhood you could always find me telling off some family member who dared to lend me a hand, “I’m fine. Just let me do it myself,” I would yell, and this fact still remains today, I hate help, I blame my birth order.

Lots of time passed, I went to college, lost my mother, stopped all plans to backpack through Europe during my twenties to settle down with Bob, the man of my dreams, who would soon become the best father any woman could ask for. Sure he shows a little crack once in a while but, hey, we all have flaws.

We now reside in a totally different suburb of Seattle with our children, Kyan, 3, and Aspen, 1, as well as our, uh, farm animals. You see, Bob is obsessed with animals, no not like that, get our mind out of the gutter, and thinks our children should be exposed often but he hates the Zoo, so, he basically brought the Zoo to us.

I have had no formal writing training, in fact, I never even took a college English class. Actually, I couldn’t even read until I was in 3rd grade, which if you read my blog for more than a minute you can see all kinds of glaring errors and you will surely see that I love me some run-on sentences.

I am no writer although I do excel in writing emails and blathering on about my kids, what we are having for dinner and everything you never wanted to know about me (because it’s my blog and I’ll write what I want), although you already know that, because you are reading this, aren’t you?

There are probably a million other things I should mention but I can’t remember right now. So, I guess you’ll have to read this blog after all.