About Me…

I am an almost 48 year old mother of three teenage boys trying to figure out who I am.  I know, I’m a little late.  I think I’ve been wrestling with this for a long time.  My Creative writing teacher in college told me I should write, but I thought she had it all wrong.  I pursued a career in Medical Genetics, but when I gave birth to three children in 11 months, I became a full time mom.  Life suddenly shifted to a walk on the wild side, with twins on the heals of a singleton.  Then two years into the parenting gig, we entered the world of special needs children–times two.  God has given me more grace than I probably deserve.  My children have made me a better person (sometimes by stretching my patience to single cell width thinness), and I work hard to see the humor in the things they do.  Life isn’t always easy, in fact it’s downright hard sometimes.

Solomon, who is believed to have written Ecclesiastes 3, writes words of wisdom.

To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:

² A time to be born,
And a time to die;
A time to plant,
And a time to pluck what is planted;
³ A time to kill,
And a time to heal;
A time to break down,
And a time to build up;
⁴ A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
And a time to dance;
⁵ A time to cast away stones,
And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing;
⁶ A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;
⁷ A time to tear,
And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak;
⁸ A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war,
And a time of peace.

A time of peace.  No matter what, peace will eventually come.  And that is where I get my strength.  The journey that brings us to the peace are the pages of our lives.  I hope you find in my pages a little solace, a little laughter, a little emotion and a little peace.