The Beginning!

Welcome to my Blog! I have decided that I need an outlet for life's little ups and downs that just cannot be achieved by complaining to a husband or jabbering with a toddler. So here it is. I thought I would begin with how we got to this point...who we are, what we're about, life in general at this moment, and raising a 2-year old while switching between feeling like I have always done this and feeling like a new mom every second of every day.

My husband John and I met in January 2003. A mere 14 months later we were engaged. I was only 19. Fresh faced, college-engrossed, and not knowing how the real world would eventually slap me in the face. Only 7 months later my grandmother died unexpectedly and sent my fragile little family world askew. But John was right there...through the "celebration of life", and he helped me keep it together. 

We married June 10, 2006, exactly 2 weeks after I graduated college with a degree in biology and chemistry. 

Life was peachy. My other grandmother passed away after a long battle with dementia, and we inherited the little farm house next door to my parents, so I got to move back home, the place where my heart had always been. But the curve balls still came. 9 months later, John lost his job, and we struggled to make ends meet. But eventually we got it back on track, and the next year we started thinking about a family.

I'm not sure if anyone is ever truly ready for what it really means when you say "It's the right time to have a baby." Is it ever really the right time? I kind of feel like if we all waited for exactly the right time, we would never have children. We would just fade away into dust. I guess God really does know what he's doing!  Move on to the next post for our son's birth story.