I’m Sadie.

I am a native New Mexican, a long-time resident of the great Southwest. I grew up in Roswell, New Mexico where yes, I regularly saw aliens. Aliens on lamp posts, aliens in coffee shops, aliens at Wal Mart and McDonald’s and creepy little stuffed aliens at the Alien Museum on Main Street. Roswell is a weird place and continues to get weirder the long I am away from there. Every now and again I randomly swoon for these amazing burritos from home, a Steak Combo Green from Burrito Express. But then, who wouldn’t randomly swoon for steak, potatoes, gooey cheese, green chiles and delicious gravy wrapped in a homemade tortilla? I have a Steak Combo shaped hole in my heart, one that cannot be filled by any shoddy substitute.

I met my husband, Rusty, when he was living in New Mexico for 7 months doing an internship at the church I had attended through high school. I spent 3 months convinced that he thought I was obnxious and annoying, only to discover, late one night in the treehouse in my parent’s backyard, that he was actually infatuated with me. Turns out my months of shameless flirting paid off. We started dating and several months later I dropped out of school and moved to Northwest Arkansas with Rusty, which just happens to be the land of my family. Arkansan roots run deep in me. It is strange how I’ve ended up here, not 10 miles from where my grandma grew up. The last 5 years I have spent time acquainting myself with my Southern self, learning to make sweet tea and add extra syllables to my words, like “What in the hay-ell?!” and “I need to comb your hay-er”. My family is full of stories about gypsies and moonshine and Little Debbie cakes.

So Rusty and I live here in the South with our kids Norah and Max. Norah and Max are the funniest, craziest kids I’ve ever met and I love them endlessly, even if they do drive me to the edge of insanity with their incessant mess making, hair-cutting, Vaseline smearing antics.

I recently started working full-time and entered the world of preschool, day care and having to get dressed every day. Of all the struggles in this transition, getting dressed every day has proved to be the hardest to overcome. I work at a children’s shelter in the area and spend my time doing crazy chaotic phone answering, form filling and faxing, medicine dispensing and intake administrating. Its lots of fun even if I do sometimes get pooped on.

In my spare time, when I’m not drooling for burritos, working on my Southern accent, hiding the Vaseline from my kids or working at the shelter, I like to read, eat dessert and watch large amounts of reality television. I love any reality show, but my most favorites are Ghost Adventures and Storage Wars. And ok fine, Real Housewives of Anywhere.

There is not an ounce of sophistication or elegance in me. The places in me that could house sophistication and elegance are filled instead with extra doses of crazy and stubborn. Stick around long enough and you are sure to witness that for yourself. : )