Love my life

  While no one truly loves working I honestly can't complain much about my job. I take care of 7 children at a dermatologists office. I love each and everyone of the kids I work with and the other 2 girls I work with are equally great. We get to do some truly fun activities at work and the sayings and ideas that these kids come up with crack me up. This morning we created treasure hunts for one another. It was a rainy, chilly day so we had to occupy ourselves inside which with kids can be a struggle but we made it a truly great day. The kids were so funny coming up with unique little clues to lead one another to the "treasures". Their treasures were as simple as an apple or one of their favorite toys but they had an absolute blast looking for the different clues that lead to their finale clue and their treat. I miss when I was little and could be so entertained with such a small, easy activity. But, being with these kids all day let me use my imagination again and I get to bring out my inner child to do my job to the best of my ability each and everyday. I can't wait until my daughter is here and my husband and I get to do all these silly fun activities with her. My job takes a ton of patience and some days I truly don't know how I can go in but its days like today that make me truly appreciate this perfect job opportunity that God has given me.

  What I'm looking for in this blog is to attract many young expecting or new moms and to get opinions and advice from experienced moms. I want a place where I can write all my new experiences in hopes someday I will look back on all this and smile. I guess the best place to start is finding out I was a newly expecting mother.
  November 5th, 2010 at about 8-9 that evening is when I took my first at home test. I peed on that dang stick and the one little pink line came up right away so I thought everything was going to be just fine. I put the test down and continued to wash my hands. By the time I was done washing my hands and cleaning up the box and instructions the other faint little pink line came through. (And yes I did try to shake the test like it was an etch a sketch.) Scared and shaking, I went into the bedroom to let Dylan know that we were expecting a baby. He didn't react the way was expecting but, to be honest, I had no idea what I was expecting. I know seeing two lines on that stick was not it. I didn't exactly believe the first test either or maybe I was just in denial but I asked Dylan take me to Wal-Mart so I could buy more. I think he was under the impression I was just running in to buy another test, however, I came out with 3 more. We went home and took another one that night, the 3rd that next morning, and the 4th Sunday morning. All with the same results as the first test.
 I can't even begin to describe my feelings at that point. I was scared to death and had no idea what I was going to do with a baby. But, I was also excited. I knew I wanted children someday I just didn't expect to be 20 and a sophomore in college when my first baby decided to come along. Although, who's ever truly ready for their first child? So, Monday morning we went to the Dr and she confirmed my results from the 4 at home tests that I took. Laughing that I took so many in the first place. It was official, I was going to be a mommy. We scheduled the first ultrasound to figure out how far along I was and to see this little miracle that Dylan and I created. We were both scared to death but we were both excited about our baby and this new phase of our lives we were now entering into. We had no idea what we were going to do or how we were going to afford a baby but, in the end, everything works out just how it was always meant to be.

Variety Is The Spice of Life

  Lately, I've been tossing and turning at night over who I am and who I want to be, what I want to do with my life and how I'm going to get where I want to be. But, I have figured out there is no point in trying to figure it all out. We are taught all our lives that we need to have a plan, we need to pick a career, go to college, get a degree, and then settle down and start our new successful lives. In my opinion, that can't be reality for everyone. The problem: LIFE HAPPENS.
  Every time I make a plan it falls through or I let myself or others down so for the next year I have decided to do exactly what makes me happy and see where that gets me. Starting with this blog. I love to write and it's one of my favorite hobbies so I'm hoping that this blog is going to be a good experience for me. I know this blog will be just one of the many joys that the year of 2011 brings me.
  I picked the title Variety Is The Spice of Life in hopes that this blog will have a ton of variety and bring variety to my life. This year I am going to challenge myself to accomplish several new and interesting goals I have set for myself. However, we all know that setting goals is an easy way to set yourself up for failure and disaster but with this blog I'm hoping to stick with my goals and I'm hoping to learn to grab life by the horns and just go for it. :)