First Blog Post!

Well I finally did it. I finally started my own blog. I've been contemplating this for quite some time now but kept coming up with excuses as to why I couldn't/shouldn't/wouldn't start one.

The idea for starting a blog first came to me over the summer while living in Fort Collins where I had plenty of time to do whatever I wanted. Jace was working at his internship all day and I was in a new city, pregnant, and without any school to worry about. I began reading other blogs written by Christian moms and thought, "Hey, wouldn't it be neat if I started one of my own?"  However, that thought was always followed by, "You shouldn't start one now because when you have Liam you'll be so busy that you won't be able to keep up with a blog. So it would really be a waste of time."

After I gave birth life was crazy. Liam was born in Fort Collins, less than two weeks before we packed up and moved back to New Mexico for the beginning of a new college semester. The move was crazy and tiring with a newborn. Neither Jace or I were getting enough sleep at that point so driving 11 hours over the course of two days was not a super enjoyable experience. Things didn't seem to fall into a rhythm once we got back down to Las Cruces until a few weeks ago. I was still trying to breastfeed (with lots of struggle and plenty of tears), while continuing to do homework and help make Jace's life as easy as possible since he's working extremely hard to finish up all his master's program this semester. Throughout all this hectic-ness I kept telling myself that right now was not a good time to start blogging. Instead, I should just wait until we move back up to Fort Collins in January and we're somewhat settled.

Well we recently decided to go ahead and invest our money by building a house in Ault, CO (twenty miles east of Fort Collins and Jace's new job) instead of throwing our income into rent while trying to save up more for a down payment. Since our house isn't scheduled to be completed until sometime in February, the idea of waiting to be "settled" in Colorado meant waiting at least another month before I started a blog. I have finally come to the conclusion that if I keep waiting for life to slow down before I take on a new hobby I'll end up on my death bed, never having pursued many of my interests.

So here I go! I intend for this blog to be a place where I can unload my thoughts and experiences involved with being a wife and mom while also sharing with friends and family all the adventures God takes my little family of three (for the time being ;)) on. I also hope this will help me record all the little moments of "mommy-hood" that I'm told so easily slip away without any effort to preserve them as memories. I may not have much time to blog, but I'll do my best and, as my not-so-favorite fitness instructor from the P90x videos always says, "forget the rest!"

-Sheila