E-mail me at: mrsfrema at gmail dot com
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Greetings and salutations! My name is Frema (rhymes with Breema). Well, not really, but it was my college nickname, and I liked it, so Frema it is. And what you're looking at just happens to be me.
Originally from Chicago, I now live in the Indianapolis area with my husband, Luke, and our three children. Kara and Nathan are a new four and almost three, respectively. With only 13 months between them, that's a classic case of stair-stepper children, wouldn't you say? Egads. Liam, bundle number three, was born last summer and may be the most easy-going baby on the planet. It really is true what they say about third children. Have one today!
Anyway, I work full-time in marketing and communications while Luke stays home with the kids. (Yes, we are all kinds of progressive.) I started blogging in 2004 to fulfill a requirement for an autobiography course I took in grad school and loved it so much that I registered for a Blogger account that spring. I've been blogging ever since.
I write about any number of things--my husband, kids, role as a working mom, on-going relationship with health and exercise, money and household budgeting, religion, and nerdy things like Lionel Richie and Sweet Valley High. I have a zillion categories to help readers navigate through various topics, but if you're new, some of the older ones won't make sense out of context. Here are a couple that require more explanation:
Tragic Love Friday: The online record of Love, Betrayal and a Baby, a baby-momma drama I wrote in high school. I began sharing the fruits of my teenage labor during NaBloPoMo in 2006, complete with commentary on lil' Frema's writing style, and finished posting the sequel in August 2007. If you were ever hooked on Aaron Spelling dramas, you will adore this, I promise.
(For an Idiot's Guide to part one provided by my fabulous TLF readers, click here. For a synopsis of part two, click here.)
Parental Discretion Advised: From July 2007 to August 2009, I wrote a blog called (what else) "Parental Discretion Advised" for Parents.com, posting three times a week about my experience with pregnancy and new motherhood. I started the blog when I was in my second trimester with Kara; by the time it ended, Kara was almost two and Nathan was seven months. The Powers That Be allowed me to republish a select number of entries on my personal blog; that's what you'll find here. The time stamps reflect the original posting date.
It was extremely difficult keeping up with this blog and that one, so when you come across gaping holes in my personal archives, it's because I saved all my blog juice for Parents and had nothing left to post here. I'm grateful I had the opportunity to write for such a popular website, but I also appreciate being able to house all my bloggy-type ramblings in one place again.
I love running, soap operas, pens, spinach dip, "your mom" jokes, made-up words from TV like cray-cray and redonk, overpriced lattes from Starbucks, Archie Andrews and the whole Riverdale gang, DVD marathons of Friends and Scrubs, Austin Powers references, Dear Abby, Ben and Jerry's, cheesy love songs, personal finance advice from Suze Orman, fitness videos featuring Jillian Michaels, indecipherable Tori Amos lyrics, Fringe, and Papa Murphy's pizza. I have zero interest in the Kardashian sisters, and I still don't know what I'm doing on Google+.
To get a better feel for how I roll, check out my bucket list and Best Of page. If those don't have you rushing to follow me on Twitter or like me on Facebook, have I told you how pretty you look today? Because you do. Absolutely ravishing.
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