Greetings! Salutations!
To start I’d like to let you get to know me a little bit. I’ve had a few friends tell me I should write and I told them they were crazy. I mean, who would want to read anything I wrote? I’m much too scatterbrained. I’m not an expert of anything, I don’t consider myself incredibly talented, and I don’t have 6 fancy degrees. But writing seems to be a therapeutic way for me to process. So maybe the idea to write was more to flay my thoughts than to have a large following of readers, but then if something I wrote helped just one other person, I’d consider it a huge success.
About me. I grew up in Oklahoma, right smack in the middle of the buckle of the Bible belt and tornado alley. I spent an enormous amount of time travelling with my grandparents when I was a kid. I’ve been in almost 40 of the 50 states (I’ll get to Hawaii someday!). I was raised in an Independent Fundamental Baptist church, and fully involved in it as a youth. As a teen I participated in Child Evangelism Fellowships Christian Youth in Action summer missionary program, and worked at their youth camp. I’ve also travelled to England, Spain, Romania and Hungary, and I’ve even been to Canada. After High school I attended a technical school for Aviation Maintenance Technology, which did not award me a diploma, it gave me a license. I moved out of parents home when I was 19, and began distancing myself from the church around the same time. I finally entirely left the church around 21 years old, but haven’t abandoned faith completely. I met my now husband at 20 years old. We had some mutual friends. He noticed me first, and attended a Daft Punk tribute concert with us just to be around and try to talk to me. It worked. We dated for about a year and then moved in together. We dated for another year before we got married. We then had two children, 22 months apart. I’ve been a working mom and a stay at home mom. Still living in Oklahoma, we were kind of just going through the motions of life. So when an opportunity to move out of state arouse, we took it. We now live in Colorado, and I am currently at home with the children.
I’ve been told to write about my upbringing and my faith. One person told me to write about all I’ve learned from motherhood. One suggested writing about moving to a new state with small children. I have so many different topics that are important or of interest to me. But since all parts of my life past and present affect how I parent, I am officially calling this a Family blog, though topics of discussion may vary tremendously.
My greatest hope is that my words will be uplifting, humorous, and even encouraging to others. So I genuinely wish you reading pleasure and hope you enjoy!
Dose of Sunshine 