About Me

I've found myself purposefully pregnant, unexpectedly unemployed, and happier and more content than I've ever been. I don't have an agenda or a deep, profound message to share. I'm not even sure I like the title of this blog yet. But I like the idea of having a place to talk about the things that I find interesting, helpful, incredibly pointless or incredibly poignant, or that just make me feel something. I'm probably going to swear once in awhile and I'm definitely going to talk about God and some other not-for-the-dinner-table topics. But that's the thing about this whole blogging thing, I can write about whatever I want and if you don't want to read about it, you don't have to! Read it, don't read it... I'll be here either way.


So here's my story (so far)...

I'm 29 years old as of the day I'm starting this blog and I wish I could stay 29. The big 3-0 really freaks me out.  I'm married to Colin, who I've known since kindergarten (gross, I know), and I am certain that God put him on this earth especially for me. He has changed my whole world and my outlook on life in a way that I don't think I could ever find words to describe. Simply put: I am a better person because one day I finally let my guard down and let him love me. And I let myself love him right back. Here we are in 8th grade at our middle school graduation dance:

We actually didn't end up dating until long after this gem of a photo was taken and we had both gone away to different colleges, dated different people, graduated, and landed jobs - me in Washington DC and him in our hometown in New Jersey. After a few months of long-distance dating, I moved back to our hometown (something I swore I would never do), and we were married 2 years later. Here we are on the big day:

We just celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary in July and a lot has happened in those four years.  For starters, I should mention that I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis four months before that picture above was taken. It was a really scary and uncertain time in my life and I'm sure that I'll blog about it eventually. Around the same time, I became a Catholic and joined the church that Colin grew up attending and also where we were married - I'm sure I'll be talking about this at some point too. A few months after our wedding, I went back to school and got my MBA in Human Resource Management and passed the PHR Exam... And then I got laid off from my new HR job. It was a huge blow to my ego and my well-laid plans, but apparently God has different plans for me. Which leads me to the most recent part of my journey on the trip of life...

We've recently become parents to Jameson, born in October 2013. Life at home with a new member of the family has been quite the adjustment. In the process of learning how to be parents, we've become better friends to each other and learned what it means to be truly selfless. We've also made some great new friends thanks to the bond of parenthood; especially new parenthood. While we're still taking things day by day, we're excited to watch our little man grow into the awesome little person we know he's going to be.

4th Wedding Anniversary - 28 weeks pregnant

Brand shiny new little boy :)