I'm BAAAACK

I've said it before, but I am going to try this blogging thing again for real!

The beginning of the school year (I am a teacher), and then field hockey season (I also coach), and then basketball season (I guess you could say I am a multitasker) got in the way of any blogging I could do. Oh yeah, and I have a one and a half year old who I love spending time with too! She literally hit keys on the laptop and added her own touch to this post about five seconds after I typed the previous sentence. No more excuses. I really want to have my own blog. I really love reading all of the amazing blogs I follow and I would like to be a part of the blogging community.

I read a lot of the preppy blogs and definitely consider myself to be preppy, especially at this point in my life. I spent some time in my late teens and very early 20's exploring style options (and hair colors!), but I have been a prep at heart since my mom bought me my first Izod winter coat as a kid and brought me to Gap Kids when it first opened (you know, back when Gap was a preppy haven). She bought me matching headbands for all of my little outfits, making sure my sister and I always looked classically adorable.

I rock Sperrys, Hunter rain boots, and have more cardigans than I care to admit. As I type, I am laying back on my plaid couch in jeans and a pink Polo oxford, but what is awesome about a preppy lifestyle is basically that it is always in style. Investment pieces last a lifetime, and even deals that one can get last a long time too. I love adding a few trendy pieces now and then, but I always head back to the button-down and cardigan. It is crisp, clean, and neat. It is a lifestyle choice as well. Preppy people always seem to have it together (which I try to for the most part, but no one is perfect).

I do not, however, care for some of the snootiness that comes along with preppiness. I do not think that true preppies are snobs. I do not think that not being preppy means that the person does not have style, money, class, or anything else. I think the snootiness that some people associate with being preppy is the antithesis of prep. Everyone has their own style and they should all be appreciated. I do not care for every preppy look, i.e. men with sweaters around their shoulders. My husband is 6'4" and 220 lbs.; a sweater around his shoulders would look wrong. Why can't you just leave the sweater in the coat room, or in your closet? What is it keeping warm? I will admit, I have tried the tied sweater shawl. It was simply annoying. Sorry if that detracts from my preppiness, but I am a mover and shaker. I cannot be tied down by an over-the-shoulder sweater. But hey, if you like it ---go for it. I think it is adorable when the ladies can pull it off, but not so much on men.

I want this blog to be more than a "preppy blog," though. I will try my best to chronicle the amusing times in my life, sales I score, restaurants I visit, foods I try, etc., then see where it takes me. Who knows? If I can stick with it this time, I may just get some followers.