Nom de plume(s)...

Wow!  What to write?!  Almost every day I think, "I ought to write about that...", just to sort out my thoughts and see where they take me on any particular topic.  So, I have finally set up a little corner on the Internet to do just that.  It took weeks to come up with a blog name.  It may not make sense to anyone else in the world, but it's so me!  The 'Grace' part came from my looking for something funny about me from family life.  My hubby reminded me of my dad calling me Grace quite often during the summer I grew 3 shoe sizes in 3 months.  :)  It had enough of a feeling of being an inside joke and enough other implications in my life that I seized on the idea.  Somehow, adding 'Brownies' came quickly after that.  Grace and brownies.  Two of my favorite things.  I know it's silly, but it works for me!

The other names we had to discover before launching the blog were the pen names I would use when discussing my family.  I follow a couple of other blogs where the authors have nicknames for everyone and have never disclosed any more than the state they live in.  For some reason, I feel more comfortable reading their blogs, and I admire their efforts at privacy.   This is also why I won't post clear, head-on photos either, but I will at least give you an idea of what we look like.

So who am I?  Well, on this blog, I am Honey Pie.  It's fun and pays homage to a Beatles song that I find myself humming fairly often. :)

My hubby shall hereafter be know as Mr. Wonderful.  As you can see in the pic I posted, I bought him a T-Shirt several years ago with that very moniker.  He asked if he really had to wear it out in public, to which I meanly replied, "Of course!"  I wouldn't have made him do it, really, if he hadn't wanted to (he's the most humble guy), but he took me seriously.  The people at the office loved it!  They had nicknames for everyone, so, of course, they weren't gonna let that one go since he didn't have a nickname yet.  And so...

We have two daughters, to whom I will refer as Bug and Roo.  Bug is 12, and my sunshine.  She has been a real trooper.  We recently uprooted our little family and moved 150 miles away from "home."  We left my parents, who lived across the street, and all her friends...  I think the first month was pretty tough, but then she turned 12 and started going to Young Women, and school started up (and she likes it!), so she's doing great now.

Roo is almost 2.  She idolizes her big "Sissy," and is the comic relief around here.  She is so affectionate, and cute.  She's at that stage where she is learning new words every day.  So much fun!  The 10-year gap between her and Bug means she is really kind of my second "only child."  Any parent of an only child knows that not having a sibling around to play with means Mom is almost the sole source of entertainment for the day!  So, we go through bouts of clinginess fairly regularly, but I think she's still getting the notion that I will not hold and coddle her all day long.

Well, that about does it for introductions.  I could "talk" all night, but I'll just leave it at that and see what tomorrow brings to mind!