Hello.  My name is Pat, welcome to my blog.  Come in, make yourself at home and stay for a while.  I’m married and a mom of four, two grown daughters, Nicole and Ashley and two small children; a boy named Ross and a girl named Francesca.  Yes, I know – a bit of a gap in between.  Apparently, I was busy.  Oh  - and we have a dog named Moose and a cat by default, Miss-T.

I‘ve always been a working mom (redundant phrase – all moms are WORKING moms) – that is to say I’ve always worked outside the home, most recently in Marketing and Public Affairs - but with the start of the economic downward spiral, my position was eliminated in February ’08.  You know, that downward spiral thingy that wasn’t, isn’t a recession.

I am now a stay at home mom, enjoying every minute with my two little ones and helping to develop new business for a collaboration with a friend who has an event planning and event marketing business.

This isn’t necessarily a mommy blog, although I plan to write about my family as I live and breathe for them   I also plan to write about my life in general, the boring mundane parts and the wonderful, precious moments and memories that the average every day is made of.  What kind of blog is that?

I’ll share my gardening moments as a novice beginner, my point of view (as I tend to be outspoken at times), my successes and failures, sorrows and joys.  But not my design sense… mostly because I don’t have much of a design sense.  If you want design, see my daughter Nicole’s blog at Making it Lovely.  Now, she has design sense.  I.do.not.  I know what I like.  I do not know how to get there.  She designed this blog for me.  My Ashley  - well she made fun of me when I called it a web log.  I told her to watch out or I’d be web logging all her 21-year-old antics for the world to see (ok – maybe world is a bit optimistic – but you get the point)!

Oh, in case you were wondering about the name -  Tomato Drill.   My four year old, Ross was in daycare when I was working full time.  They occasionally had Tornado Drills.  At the end of the day he would talk about the Tomatoes and how they swirl and swirl and fly around in the sky.  And how they had tomato drills in “school”.  With a blog about kids and gardening  (tomatoes this year too) and other things, it just seems appropriate.

Any way, I do hope you enjoy your time here at Tomato Drill.  I hope to get to know you and that  you like the “me” you’ll get to know here.