About me

So how about I start with a little bit about myself: I've been around just slightly over 29 years. I used to LOVE to write as a child, but really haven't been doing too much writing lately until a mentor of mine suggested I keep a daily journal. I am also married (to a pretty great man) and we have two kids, Teryn, our daughter, just turned 10 and Michael, our son, is 8 (and 1/2 as he would make sure to remind you). As I mentioned, this mentor suggested I keep a daily journal. If you've ever journaled (apparently Word doesn't think that's a word), you know it requires either quiet solitude or the ability to tune everyone/thing out. If you've ever been a parent, you know those two things are hard to come by. And as a working parent, I feel like the only time I can truly get that is when I'm at work (and supposed to be doing what they pay me for, not journaling ((which is a word in Word))).

Interestingly enough, I just right clicked the red squiggly under "journaled" and one of the options that popped up was "journey". Completely not the word I was going for, but got my mind to thinking about this journey that my journaling has taken me on. I didn't go out and buy the biggest, baddest, 5 subject purple spiral expecting a journey (I bought it because being the avid writer I was as a youth, I thought I would fill up any of the one subject spirals I had at home too quickly). Man was I wrong! I don't know if it was because I got to a point where I actually had to do WORK while I was at work (who saw that one coming? I certainly didn't) or if things just got too far behind at home, like they often will with a busy family that doesn't have a maid.

So here's the start of my online journal/journey/I think they call these newfound contraptions blogs. (On a side note, I once read an article about how to be a successful blogger, where is your Internet reading history when you need it?) I hope I keep you all entertained as well as keep myself on track. I would gladly appreciate any of your comments and suggestions, but please try to be positive, or at the very least constructive. I am after all a mere mortal. I WILL make mistakes, I will have typos, I will manage to not get my point across, I will have opinions that aren't always the best (but don't tell my husband that I've admitted to that ;D). I'm just trying to be a good, Christian woman, and find a balance between work, kids and sanity.