About Me

I am starting this blog because God has been speaking to me as a stay at home mom and I wanted to share. My other blog is strictly about my family doings.
I thought I'd start with a bit of my background. My biography if you will.

I grew up in a fantastic Christian home. I don't remember a time when God wasn't included in our lives in a major way. I accepted Christ as my savior as a child and although I have stumbled my way through, I love being a child of Christ. My husband often jokes that my childhood was like the Walton's. Everyone loved each other and we lived in the same house my whole life. We were very middle class, not rich, but not poor. My parents still live in my childhood home. I have parents that are still married after 41 years and I strive to have that kind of marriage too.
My husband grew up in the complete opposite. He is a child of teenage parents that were married briefly and divorced. He grew up mostly with just his mother and a variety of step-dads and boyfriends of his mom's. He moved about the country living at poverty level and even spent some of his childhood in homeless shelters. He had grandparents that did their best to introduce him to Christ but it wasn't until his late teens that he found Christ.
I was single for what some people deem as "a long time". I was 31 when I met my husband, married at 32. When I met him he was a divorcee that was a single parent to his two children. He was a somewhat "broken" man that I wasn't sure I wanted to fix. After much much prayer I decided God wanted me to at least have a friendship with him. I found out that this man wanted marriage and never wanted to be divorced. He wanted a complete family. He adored his kids so much and that was super attractive! So God and I had some chats. He really changed my heart after I searched God's Word. After 5 months of dating, I became engaged and exactly a year to the day from our first date, we were married and I became a step-mom.
Step-mom...GASP! The word send chills down your spine doesn't it? It has never felt that way with the two awesome kids that God gave me. From the time we got engaged they wanted to call me mom. I was NOT ready for that when we first got married. They continued to ask frequently, but I never really felt it was right. They had asked again just before we were ready to move to new town and I felt God telling me that it was time to let them decide. So we approached the kids and told them that if they wanted to, and only if they wanted to they could call me mom. We were anticipating having more children, and remember the kids saying that the new kid wouldn't get so confused if they all called me mom. Since then, I have been mom. There is actually a lot more to that story, but I'll save that for another day.
So that's how it all began, me as a mom. Now with a toddler and one more on it's way I hear God speaking to me through these amazing little people. This blog is to share what God is doing in me and through me. Please feel free to comment, question or discuss my posts with me. I do ask that we keep the conversation respectful as God has called us all to different walks of life, FROM different walks of life. I am only speaking of my life.