This Is Me.

I know it has been a long time since I posted. I have been taking some time to "find myself" after a fashion. And, while I am still looking and fine tuning, I know who I want to be. And that is....

Me.

I have struggled with this blog, trying to make it like "everyone else's" until I look at it, and I'm not really sure whose it actually is. I was so worried about trying to get people to read it that I forgot that I was really writing it for me. It's a running theme in my life. I worry so much about who other people want me to be that I'm not really sure who I am sometimes. And while I may never get to the point where I can be "myself" around most other people, I want to make sure that I know who I am.

So, if you are looking for what's popular, you might want to just move on to another blog. Because here, it's just little ol' me.  You are welcome to stick around if you'd like. Laugh at my quirkiness (I'm very self-depreciating), fawn over my beautiful children (*wink wink*), swoon with jealousy over the man I married (ok, I really do think he is the most wonderful man ever, but you don't actually have to do that), and just make a new friend. :)

This is me.

 *the listener
 *the crazy
 *the Christian
 *the home-schooling mommy
 *the stay-at-home wife
 *the doing-the-best-i-can homemaker
 *the I'm-not-ready-to-grow-up-yet kid-at-heart
 *the wallflower
 *the one who can't say "no"
 *the one who wants to be involved in everything
 *the watcher
 *the peace keeper
 *the "smart" one
 *the goofy one
 *the music lover
 *the dreamer
 *the planner
 *the insecure
 *the quiet one
 *the loud one
 *the deep one
 *oh there's so much more to me than you know

Don't expect regularity. Don't expect constant insightfulness or funniness. Don't expect anything. Just enjoy and know....

This is me.