Why the name?

Several people have asked me how I came up with the title for my blog.  Yes, they think it's pretty cool but where did it come from?

Well, I'm just a tad, wee little bit anal retentive about certain things...including the behavior and actions of my children.  I've also been known to be just a little short-tempered at times.  Yeah, I know some of you are laughing your butts off right now, just bear with me.  When I started blogging again, I found my former blog was no longer available so I had to try for a new one.  I tried every variation of my name that I could think of but you know, Anderson is quite common, as is Mary, and believe it or not, the combination of those two with Kelly left nothing available.  So I had to get creative.

While I was sitting at my laptop pondering my choices, the time a little past 8:00pm (the girls' bedtime which is STRICTLY enforced), I soon found myself face-to-face with our almost-7-year-old.  "I didn't get my drink of water, I didn't go potty, I didn't brush my teeth, I'm hungry, Emily hit me, Emily keeps talking and I can't go to sleep."  I raised my voice, which I seldom do (insert coffee-spraying-through-your-nose laugh here), and told her to get her skinny-little-butt back in bed (ok, now it's snot coming out your nose accompanied by a strong laugh, but no, you're right, I didn't say skinny).

So I'm back to this blog and pondering a name.  And that's when it hit me...getting upset with Grace was not worth it, and it certainly would not mean anything ten years from now.  So, the name was born.

Most times I do not end up writing about things that won't matter in ten years, but instead will mean as much (if not more) as they do now.  It's like the blog about Tommy, that will absolutely mean everything ten years from now.  "Manners" is a timeless writing of thoughts, and "Happy Anniversary, babe" was about ten years AGO, but truly I hope to be the same if not better ten years from now...but it certainly will matter!

I love my family and I love my life and while a lot of times I write about things that absolutely WILL matter ten years from now, just seeing the title every time I log on here, I'm reminded that in the daily day-to-day, the few times I get upset (I know...BWAHAHAHA) will not matter in ten years.