I'm going to start off by saying how absolutely TERRIBLE I am at blogs. I WANT to be good....but I'm just not. I always have the intention of starting one of these so I can keep track of all these memories that are someday going to just slip from my memory. I want to be organized and perfect and lock every memory away where it can't escape....but it just doesn't happen. The times that I DO try to keep some type of journal, I overwrite. So then I feel like I have to have lots of time on my hands to blog because I know I'm going to end up with a novel and then I just never get around to it. This is me attempting to work at it. I now realize that a few days of blogging is better than nothing. If it can preserve some of this crazy life so my kids will be able to look back on it someday, then it's served its purpose.
For anyone who reads this and has no clue as to who we are (and actually cares), I'll give a little summary. I met my husband, Ryan, in college at UWO in 2003. We had Comm 101 together. There were 20 girls and 5 guys.....the odds were in his favor :). It was his sophomore year and my freshmen year. He had been in the Navy for 5 years prior to going to college so he was an old man when I met him (he was 24, I was just 18....a baby really). We didn't start dating until May the following year. We were married in August 2006 and graduated together after that fall semester. Since I got my BS in Psychology and didn't want to spend a ton in Grad school costs and since you cant really do anything with just a Psych degree....we moved where Ryan's degree would find him a job......Milwaukee. But for me, a small town girl, the thought of living anywhere near Milwaukee gave me a panic attack. I always said there were two cities I didn't want to live in and it was Milwaukee and Madison. Well, this is where God led us. Ryan's awesome sister who had been living in West Allis for a bit had recommended Grafton to us. We made the move, got a couple of beagles and lived in an apartment for a year. In the fall of 2007, we found the perfect house for us and became first-time homeowners. We love our home so much even though it does need a lot of cosmetic work. It's an older home with lots of character. We completed several little projects on our home here and there when we could but that pretty much stopped once we started having kids :). On May 26, 2009, Matthew & Jacob joined our family at 4:34 and 4:41 PM respectively. We decided that wasn't enough, so we added Mikayla to the mix on July 15, 2011 at 8:20 AM and Charles on February 10, 2013 (the time was roughly 12:20 PM but we aren't 100% certain on that because of his birth story.....but I'll save that for another time).
Yes, yes, I'm a busy mom and yes, I have my hands full. But I wouldn't choose for it to be any other way. I have been truly blessed to be able to remain a stay at home mom this whole time. I love being able to watch my children play and grow and be there for almost all the moments as they go way to fast. My oldest babies (yes, I still tell them they're my babies, I'm one of THOSE parents), just started kindergarten yesterday. This is what really prompted me to start this blog. I realized after watching some home videos last week, how much I had forgotten of the everyday life that I wanted to badly to be here for every day. Some days are a bit of a blur and it isn't glamorous. But we can so often forget all the special little moments and I guess I'm just fighting to preserve them. So more than anything, even if no one else reads this but my family, then it has served its purpose. It's alright if I get too wordy. It's alright if our life doesn't make sense to anyone else. I can't even recall how many times I've heard "You have 4??? Such a BIG family!! I couldn't never do that!" But that's OK. My husband and I chose this life. Four isn't really that big of a number. I think it just freaks people out a bit when you and your spouse are outnumbered. I don't know. But we LOVE having four. We're right where we want to be :).
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