A New Beginning

This year is bringing a lot of changes in my life.  First of all, I am pregnant (about 25 weeks right now) with a 2nd little baby girl.  She will arrive, if all goes as planned, around the middle of May.  I will turn the BIG 3-0 a few months after that and ...my oldest child Carter Pearl will be turning TWO in a couple of weeks, which is totally unbelievable.   As I said, there are so many changes going on in my personal life right now that it is almost hard to believe and I sometimes have a hard time "stopping to smell the roses."  My husband and I both work full time jobs and by the time that we get home in the evening, like most families, we are wiped out and we spend our weekends trying to catch up, relax or visiting family and friends.  We have become so busy with the "busy" that we don't take the time to document all of the happenings and blessings that are going on in our lives each day!  I am starting this blog as a centralized location to keep up and take control of my life.

With the Lineman on his 30th

With that being said, I would like to utilize this blog to document and share my experiences as an un-experienced mom, and connect with others who might be going through the same things.    I know that as a mom, I find it reassuring to connect with others who are experiencing the same thing and know that I am not alone! 

I also want to become more productive and domestic!  I am not the greatest cook, but I enjoy it and I like to try new things.  This will be a place to share some of my challenges and successes.  I am definitely not a chef and anything that I cook is followed by a recipe that someone gave me or I found...I will try to post where I got the recipe.    We plan on planting a small garden outback and I have some great instructors in gardening and preserving food, so I am hoping to share that as we give it our own shot.   

 My family and I live in a "house in progress" and we are updating it as money and time permit, so I want to document and share the projects that we are doing. 

Finally, for a woman approaching the exit line to her twenties, I feel pretty darn unstylish and I recently cleaned out my closet and found stuff from high school...eeek!!!  And, then immediately after I cleaned it out, I found out I was pregnant, which was just great.  Anyway, I think it is time to grow up and try to develop a sense of style.  The problem is that I am clueless when it comes to fashion.  Some people are born with an eye for design and style and, unfortunately I am not one of those people...but, I am willing to try to experiment and try new things.

Ambitious, I know...but I am tired of sitting on the sidelines and rumbling through each day and getting to the end of the year (or the end of my twenties) and not knowing what the heck just happened.  I don't want to be reflecting on my thirties in ten years and saying:  "Who am I and how did I get here?"  So...I hope that I can learn from sharing my life on this lovely piece of web real estate and I am hopeful that others might enjoy relating to all of my adventures in adulthood as well!!

Please feel free to comment and share your adventures with me too!