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My name is Katybeth and I live in Chicago with my husband, Joe, and my thirteen-year-old son, Cole. I was born in Roswell, New Mexico after the aliens had already visited, grew up in El Paso, Texas, and ended up in Chicago because I was born in Roswell, New Mexico, and grew up in El Paso, Texas. I never thought I’d be here 22 winters, but now accept that I will grow old and turn into one of those little old ladies wearing an over-sized wool coat and funny hat, lugging a huge bag of stuff to the bus stop. You see them on the newscasts each January braving yet another Chicago winter.

I am a professional pet spoiler, running my own business, Camp Run-A-Pup. We spoil other people’s pups, and we do it really well. We have three dogs of our own, Rascal, a Parson’s Terrier (AKC recognizers her as a Parson’s; you would recognize her as a Jack Russell), Skippy, a Schipperke with a personality disorder, and Scooby, a beagle that might belong to a neighbor. Our newest family star is SOQUEL’S LAST SOUVENIRE, or as we call her, Trinket, a show-stopping Doberman pup. I co-own Trinket with my mom because I like being on the winning side of the dog show arena and I want the rights to tell the real unabridged stories of the oddities of dog showing. The movie Dog Show did not even come close.

During the week I spend more time at my son’s Chicago Waldorf school than he does, volunteering. On the weekends I’m a soccer mom; a soccer mom who believes it is more fun if you are winning and can yell “what were you thinking” at a team of 6 year olds. I hate it when the team loses, the players cry and some parent asks, “But did you have fun?” In spite of me, Cole loves the game and is a good sport.

My hobbies don’t include cooking, baking or sewing. My cannon camera, laptop, iPhone, and National Geographic field bag are my life’s essentials. Joe says if our house was on fire, my first question would be, “Where is my camera?!” I could look for it while he tried to find his shoes, because burning house or not, he won’t walk on the ground barefoot. Lucky for us, we have a son who insisted on a fire plan at an early age.

Each morning, I wake up asking,”What next?” and I say YES as often as I can throughout my day. I’m crazy about my kid, mom and pups, and crazy is what all three make me on any given day. My dad never ceases to amaze and amuse me, and I’m the best thing that ever happened to Joe, even if my idea of an adult drink is a coke over ice, with a twist and, in his opinion, I take too many showers.

FInd out more about me at myoddfamily.com

Now enough about me, I hope you will share about you in the comment section of this blog. I am one of the most accessible people you will ever meet, so I hope you will friend me on Facebook, follow me on Twitter, or e-mail me any time. In other words, odd loves company!

Oddly Yours,

Katybeth