Maybe that wasn't the best title for this post, or maybe it was. Some people may say, "haven't you birthed enough?" Yeah, maybe so. So maybe it's a very fitting title for my first post in revitalizing my love and passion for blogging.
Like every good fairy tale, this story starts as "Once upon a time...". Maybe that would have been a good title. Once upon a time, long ago, in a far away land when I had no kids and lots more energy in my twenties, I blogged like it was my job. It got slower after the first 3, then pretty much non existent after the 4th. Then life changed, I got divorced, remarried, had another kid and went back to grad school. I've been doing good just to snap pictures, charge my phone and eat a meal at home in the past 2 years. Through all of this time, I missed blogging. I missed having the time to share all the crazy that goes in my head, the amazing journey God has sent me on and just the joy, sorrow, frustration and figuring out of life as it goes along. Don't get me wrong, I've been writing like crazy. A Specialist Degree in Educational Leadership does that to you. I've been reflecting like crazy on my professional life and journey, but not had the time or opportunity to put words on paper about all of the other stuff. I've been itching to get back to documenting, sharing, thinking out loud....and now I can!
Since I am graduating on Friday (whoop whoop!) and life is slowing down for just a minute, I decided that in picking up my blogging habit, I needed to revitalize the blog altogether. With that being said, I'll begin with sharing some random facts about me that the average person may or may not know.
Like every good fairy tale, this story starts as "Once upon a time...". Maybe that would have been a good title. Once upon a time, long ago, in a far away land when I had no kids and lots more energy in my twenties, I blogged like it was my job. It got slower after the first 3, then pretty much non existent after the 4th. Then life changed, I got divorced, remarried, had another kid and went back to grad school. I've been doing good just to snap pictures, charge my phone and eat a meal at home in the past 2 years. Through all of this time, I missed blogging. I missed having the time to share all the crazy that goes in my head, the amazing journey God has sent me on and just the joy, sorrow, frustration and figuring out of life as it goes along. Don't get me wrong, I've been writing like crazy. A Specialist Degree in Educational Leadership does that to you. I've been reflecting like crazy on my professional life and journey, but not had the time or opportunity to put words on paper about all of the other stuff. I've been itching to get back to documenting, sharing, thinking out loud....and now I can!
Since I am graduating on Friday (whoop whoop!) and life is slowing down for just a minute, I decided that in picking up my blogging habit, I needed to revitalize the blog altogether. With that being said, I'll begin with sharing some random facts about me that the average person may or may not know.
- I am completely and totally OBSESSED with my kids. All of them. I fought hard to get pregnant, carry, and birth all 5 of them and they are absolutely the best things walking. Well, smiling...since one is nowhere near walking.
- I consider myself a WDW Dining expert. Wanna know where to eat? Call me.
- Cheerleading is still the other love of my life. I love spending my Saturdays in the fall at the judges table at GHSA Competitions and cheering on my own little Stingrays on the mat doing what I love.
- I only see life in black and white. No, I'm not color blind, but I have a really, really hard time with gray areas. In fact, if I cant tell what something IS or ISNT in my life, it upsets me more than I can describe.
- I have way more T shirts than one human should ever be allowed to have. And I refuse to part with any of them. I'm working on putting some of them "away", but I'm not doing a very good job.
- I LOVE my job. Like, borderline obsessively LOVE my job. I seriously have fun every single day I go to work for 8 hours. Teaching my girls is an absolute blast and everyday is filled with laughter, smiles, hugs and some drama (that's what you get with 175 teenage girls). Though I feel a calling to leave the classroom a some point for the right position, I'm usually pretty stoked to be in A210 everyday.
- I wish I could go to bed at 8:00 every night. Sometimes, I get close, but it never really happens.
- I watch Days of Our Lives in spurts. My DVR will get like 65 episodes on it and Ill binge watch them for like 2 weeks and then get behind 2 more months.
- I've lived in Douglasville my entire life (except for 4 years of college) but desperately want to live in Southern California. One day I'll pull the trigger and go.
- I developed anemia in all of my pregnancies and became obsessed with eating ice. Knox is almost 7 months old and I'm still eating at least 2 large cups of Racetrac ice everyday.
- I have great desires to be this perfect homemaker wife who bakes her own bread and makes her own laundry detergent...but refuse to slow down long enough to even figure it out.
- When people let me down, I take it really hard. I don't show it on the outside, but I don't bounce back easily from any type of disappointment or heartbreak when it comes to people I love (see the fact about black and white).
- My life is as crazy as it seems, but I have the most incredible tribe that helps out. Namely, my husband. Everyone claims they "married their best friend" but truly, I have. We are THAT couple that does everything together all the time. I never understood people like that until I became one, and its not because I'm obsessed with my husband, its because he's my best friend. We truly are co-dependent only because we want to be.
- I am super adventurous in every aspect of life, except for food. I eat the same plain things over and over and never get tired of them.
- I go from one massive project to the next constantly in life. Now that Ive finished another degree and had another baby, the next goal is DOPEY. (more on that later)
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