Sweet Mummy – that’s me!
For years I’ve gone by this username online.
In real life, I’m called Mom, Mum, Madre, Mumsie, Sweetie, and sometimes even by my real name, Raylene.
I’m a Champion of weirdos (or WEIRDIES, as I prefer to call us), lover of hedgehogs and chocolate and sunshine ☀️, and a Wonder of a Woman. I am a (land)pirate, a hobbit, and a bard (at least I feel like these in my heart).
I’m currently transitioning between 2 very different worlds, after having lived in Canada for 23 years and moving back to the USA to family land in 2021.
Woman, wife, mom, business owner, quilter, musician, resident weirdie – that’s all ME!
I have been married 26+ years to a great guy who drug me off to another country and then back again 23 years later. 🤣
I am MOM to 3 fantastic now-adult kiddos – 21-yr-old son, 23-yr-old son, 24 yr-old daughter.
I’m happily Can-American (a citizen of both Canada and The United States).
I am proud to be a highly educated Stay-at-Home Mom / Wife / Home Manager, having a Bachelor of Science Degree in Water Resources-Civil Engineering, graduating with honors. I’m glad to have worked in the “professional’ world just long enough to appreciate how important a Profession is. I’m also glad to have left the corporate world to fully enjoy motherhood as my chosen profession.
I LOVE music and drama (theatre) and creating beautiful things. I love long walks on late summer evenings. I live for mountain vistas. It’s my favorite when my kiddos make me laugh.
I’m on a quest to discover a place that I cannot find ANY beauty in. (Wyoming would qualify for that if it weren’t for Yellowstone in western Wyoming…) I love to travel and see new things, and find every place, so far, very beautiful in its own way.
My hometown has been many places: Belen, NM; Loving, NM; Carlsbad, NM; Las Cruces, NM; Vancouver, BC, Canada; Abbotsford, BC, Canada; Lethbridge, AB, Canada; and now Carlsbad, NM again.
I have been diagnosed with Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and Endometriosis, Epstein-Barr Syndrome, Long-Covid, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), chronic depression and anxiety, and recently dealt with surgery for removal of an ovary in torsion, and a car accident.
I am a recovering depression sufferer, a quilter, a singer, a fiddler, an encourager, a wanna-be writer, a storyteller, a boo-boo fixer, a dancer, a coacher, a life-long learner, a great-big-laugher,a listener, a create-er, a crier, a do-it-yourself-er, a hyster-sister, and a sometimes a blogger!
I’ve been blogging since 2004 in some capacity or another. Things have evolved and I have too!
I’m a work in progress!
| Favorite Quotes: |
| “Creativity is the residue of time wasted.” ~~Albert Einstein “I can handle anything that life throws at me – I may not be able to handle it well, or correctly, or gracefully, or with finesse, or expediently-but I will handle it.” “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” “I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird” “Where’s your will to be weird?” “It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.” “There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.” “Don’t borrow someone else’s spectacles to view yourself with.” |
Find out more about me at The Woman Behind the Stick Girl, ? Why the Screen-Name ? or various other posts in the Women’s Life category.
