Hello, today I decided to start a blog. Why? Because I like to talk, I have a crazy life, I get an occasional laugh out of my daily life stories (mostly having to do with my funny little toddler), and God teaches me many wonderful things I'd like to share with others that may benefit!
Here's a little background that will help understand what's behind some of the things I share on here. I'm twenty one years old with a three year old marriage and a beautiful twenty one month old product of my marriage. Don't ask what I do for a living because the first two answers that come to mind are, "i don't know" and "um what don't i do?" I've never cared for that question. Don't get me wrong I understand why we as a society ask it- it helps us understand each other, or classify what category we belong in: stay at home mommy, part time book-store worker, career woman. I've just never felt comfortable answering this question with confidence... I'm a natural born people pleaser, but I'm coming along.
Moving on- I met my husband at a Bible camp when we were teenagers, we wrote letters and emails for two years without cell phones as we lived about 6 hours apart. Eventually, we ended up at the same Bible College in Iowa and were engaged and married two years later. He is wonderful, and yet still a man. More about Andrew later. Four months after we were married I found I was pregnant with our son Charlie. Most mothers would spout something poetic and touching like, "Charlie is the light of our lives, he is what brought us together and taught us what true love is." While that mush makes me grimace from cliche it is true, but how I would BEST describe Charlie Bryan is, "extremely clumsy, very sticky, really hungry, and ridiculously hilarious." Up until two weeks ago, Charlie addressed me only as, "DOGGY." This says something about my son, but more than that it says something about my husband. Everything a child knows, he is taught. When my husband jokingly taught my son to call me "DOGGY," what he didn't realize is that Children are less easily 'untaught' something. I have been doggy for nearly a year. More about Charlie later.
As for the "what do i do" question- here goes. I am a daughter of the Almighty God of Heaven, a wife to a delightfully sarcastic ESPN loving full time college student, a mother to a heaven-sent little goblin, a traveling financial rep for a contracting company, and a songwriting- guitar and piano playing-Steven Curtis Chapman stalking-striving musician. So there ya have it, the beauty of the "where do you see yourself in five years?" question for me is that I don't have the slightest clue. Maybe I'll be a missionary in Tibet. Maybe I'll be on stage opening for some amazing gospel or country singer. Maybe I'll be pregnant with my fourth child. Maybe I'll still be on roofs telling folks how bad their hail damage is and how much their insurance policy will cover. I don't know and that's okay, there's nothing wrong with a story still being written and an author just along for the ride. God is good, and He is who my life belongs to. He is who my troubles rest on, and my uncertainty finds rest in His peace. He is my song.
So this is beginning, hopefully someone out there will read my words and be changed in some way. We all have stories to tell, and mine happens to be full of hard and meaningful lessons and sprinkled with lighthearted moments throughout its pages.
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