Good question. I really don’t have extra time. I have a lot of other things I should be doing, like sleeping, cleaning my house, etc. I am blogging for several reasons. One, I love to write. Always have. I need practice. I want to write a book about all God has so lovingly brought me through. Not because I think I am great, rather not. But then again, yes, that’s what I’m realizing. I am special to Him. My best friend, since the second grade, said I should write a book about my crazy life. She said no one would believe all this was really true, not even herself, if she had not known me and known it all to be true. We loved Anne of Green Gables when we were in high school so she suggested that I write Jodi of Foley (where I grew up), Jodi of Fairhaven (where I went to college) and so on with the respective places. Well the story starts, well at the beginning. As time passes I keep meaning to record my life, but keep getting more and more behind. So I decided to pick the busiest time of my life to begin. Aren’t I silly? I have got to start somewhere: right now I am in Saint Louis. Hopefully, I will be able to catch you up on the rest someday, but for now this will be a place to record some very mundane details of what’s going on in my life with five small children, and in my heart as God so graciously continues to bring me to a place of complete dependence on Him. I hope you will understand that I am not perfect nor trying to teach anyone anything. I am just sharing my life in hopes that God will encourage you that you are not alone in the battle we call life. I believe Christian women need to be real with each other so that we do not feel isolated or condemned in our struggles. I hope to share about marriage, children, loving God, finances, home management, or in my case lack thereof:), homeschooling, or anything else that God brings my way. I do not write as an expert but just as a girl struggling through all of these things. I love to make people laugh, so I hope we can have fun.
