About Me

This is me. My name is Charmane, but I like to go by Charm too. Born in 1980, the 80's have stuck with me! I love music from the 80's... I was working at the movie theater during my high school years, advanced to first asst manager, and almost had my own theater (it closed down shortly thereafter :(   )  Since 2003 when I married my wonderful hubby, I've been a stay at home mom.
Charm: high school years



In 2008 we found out all of us have bad food allergies so i've become the baking mommy. I am currently allergic to gluten, dairy, eggs, and garlic. To see what the rest of the family is allergic to please look under the my family link at the top.  I try to bake something from scratch at least once a week, and all of our meals are homemade too. I also love making things, like homemade cards, my own shirts (screen printing), sewing, and basically anything else that is crafty!  I love reading and going to the library. I've got 3 tattoos (who knows if there will be more) and took out my tongue ring after 10 years and then decided to get my nose pierced.

In our extended family is our kitty cats. We have two, Merlot, pictured above and my black cat Fidget ( to the left, looking very annoyed!). Our family car is also a member of the family. It is an old VW bus, our grandma named Dilly, to see pics and read about her see the Dilly link at the top!

2003 wedding day


Winter of 2009 I took a job at Amazon doing tech support for the kindle, it was just a seasonal position, very weird to be working after being at home for years. I met a lot of great people and had a blast. I was laid off in time to finally get a stamp in my passport. We went to Mexico with all my family!! I'm talking about parents, grandparents, siblings and a few other relatives!!  It was definitely a life changing trip for me as I had only been to Canada a few times and had only been on a short plane ride once before.  My next big vacation is hopefully at DisneyLand as I've always wanted to go there!!


silly plastic nose ring!
Over the  past year i've really opened my self up to new things, new experiences. I've recently changed my parenting style to Love and Logic and am very happy with the results. Learned about Native Americans, and just learned how to make dream catchers! Goals for next year is to sew more, including making my own clothing, exercise more (and hopefully lose a bit of weight ) and to try to update my blog a few times a week!!