Hello everyone! My name is Dawn (or Dandy, as I tend to respond on the blogosphere)
and I live in lovely Orange County, California.
I started this blog as a way to count my blessings and keep track of the chaos when my husband B and I were just engaged.
The term "spontaneous clapping" came from B because I tend to break into spontaneous applause a lot.
When I'm excited, when I'm loving my food, when I see a good commercial, when someone does something wonderful... tons of reasons I spontaneously clap throughout the day.
The term "spontaneous clapping" came from B because I tend to break into spontaneous applause a lot.
When I'm excited, when I'm loving my food, when I see a good commercial, when someone does something wonderful... tons of reasons I spontaneously clap throughout the day.
I'm also a breast cancer survivor, diagnosed at the age of 27, and in September I celebrated my very last oncology appointment after 5 plus years of treatment and follow up appointments!
Through this blog I've documented our wedding back in December 2009,
in which I brought my own camera so that I could post sooner.
Our incredible honeymoon in New Zealand where I ate my weight in meat pies and gourmet restaurants and we travelled both islands doing things like
Kayaking gorgeous humungous lakes one day and hiking a glacier a few days later.
B and I both adore food (having met in the restaurant industry) and we love to eat.
You'll see a lot of food posts here.
In fact, I write a food blog called Eating the Orange for OC Metro.
You'll see a lot of food posts here.
In fact, I write a food blog called Eating the Orange for OC Metro.
59 days after the wedding we were pregnant!
Peanut was both planned AND a total and complete surprise, which you can read about here.
So for a while the blog was all about babies.
Have I lost you yet?
Have I lost you yet?
On Halloween 2010 Peanut arrived at 6:12 pm.
He was healthy, lovely and perfect and a very normal 7 1/2 lbs, 21 inches long.
He hasn't stopped growing since, continually topping the charts in the 100% percentiles.
As I am a meager 4'11" I suspect he'll be taller than me any day now.
He has a rather large noggin' which could account for the damaged hoo hoo and the prolonged use of mesh panties. I suppose at this point I will agree it was all very worth it
and I may just do it again someday.
I've had a great time blogging about the very wonderful and very un-glamorous sides of motherhood.
The Peanut is now nearly 2 years old AND we just moved into our very first house.
I suspect there will be a lot of home posts coming soon!
Thanks for visiting me at Spontaneous Clapping!
Dear Spontaneous Clapping,
ReplyDeleteThis is a very nice fotolog. Thanks for sharing you experience with the world. Congrats on your beautiful family. May God bless you and your family.
G