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A Change For the Blog




My sister, Lacey, has been telling me for months, maybe even a year that I need to start writing about all aspects of my life, not just Gabby.  It’s difficult to expose all parts of your life on the internet for the world to see so I have resisted this suggestion.  Finally I think I have convinced myself that I am going to attempt to talk about various aspects of my crazy, beautiful life.  Hopefully I can do this in a way that you can relate to and is still entertaining.  I know Gabby is fun and interesting ALL of the time, but me…not so much.    

I figure I will start with a simple background, because the point of blogging is for you to feel like you are here to experience my life and relate to my “adventures.”  Obviously my world revolves around Michael and Gabby.  They are my world and are always in my thoughts no matter where I am or what I am doing (which I believe sometimes drives my friends crazy).  Apparently once you are a wife and a mother there is no true you time ever again.  This may sound like a negative thing, but it’s not, it’s the greatest thing in the world.  The hardest part is learning how to balance “me” time, work, and family.  I will go into greater detail later regarding the balance.

Hopefully by now you know, I am part time speech language pathologist and a full time mom.  I am very blessed that my mom watches my baby while I am at work.  Honestly, I would not work, we would live a far less luxurious life (and probably wouldn’t have savings) if it wasn’t for the greatest gift my mom has given us…so again, thank you mom!

P.S. Every Post about Gabby will still be the main page (or under “Gabby”) and all of mine should be under “mommyhood” and then added to other tabs for organization.
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