An Introduction

My story is perhaps one of many around the world, certainly one of many in a country inundated with hostility toward stay at home moms, or even just moms in general. My husband is gone often, sometimes for weeks at a time and I am left here to claim a household perch that sometimes gets a little overwhelming. My children (sometimes three of them, sometimes four depending on the week) delight in providing me with experiences that boil my blood over, but also bring me back to those childhood days of learning and finding joy in all the little things. There are many times that I find myself on the learning journeys with them, and sometimes even learning things that I have forgotten along the way.

We have a blended family, my husband and I. We had to wade through a lot of awful relationships to get to each other, and I would choose to do it all over again if I had to, as long as I found my way back to him. I find every moment to tell the world how proud I am of him and how amazing he is as a father and husband. I wish whole-heartedly that everyone could have this experience and thank my lucky stars every day to have lived it. Having both lived through the struggles of tumultuous relationships and the whole gambit of cheating, domestic violence, gambling, and other addictions from past significant others, we are immensely grateful for each other and make sure to show it through words and actions every single day.

Together and with our children we are figuring out to brave this world on less and less, and doing what we can to do for ourselves rather than pay others to do it for us. As the community and income flow shrink, we become more and more independent. Learning to grow a thing here or there, bake the bread, and figure out how to do it the way our grandparents and their grandparents did it. Maybe we aren’t living in the dust bowl yet, but I’d feel better if we were prepared for that anyway. Our youngest is three, but the other three are older (eleven, fourteen, and sixteen) and we do what we can to prepare them for the world outside the walls of this home.

In the exceedingly rare moments to myself I sip from the chalice of books and podcasts, consuming anything that has anything to do with politics, conspiracies, history (especially in relation to the US Government), religion, UAP/UFO’s, and other bizarre and seemingly impossible things. I run a social media group of a couple of like-minded friends in which we enjoy a good discussion about those things and am tagged and pulled back there often throughout the day. I also enjoy hydro-gardens and (mostly) failing to grow substantial yields of anything at all, but that doesn't stop me from trying. I enjoy house plants and somehow keeping them alive, despite a previously held black thumb.

I homeschool all of the children, each of whom have varying interests and abilities. I have a lot of reasons for homeschooling my children, and that might be a topic I will chance to delve into sooner rather than later. With this, we choose a few extra curriculars to work on our social skills and maintain relationships and friendships outside of the home. We are active in Girl Scouts, Chess Club(new at this one), and a homeschool co-op that meets once a week for hiking and other social activities.

Writing has always been a passion of mine but I have failed to transfer that hobby into any kind of media, save for a book about silly things the children have done over the years that I self published on Amazon. Thanks for taking the time to read my introduction and I look forward to writing about all of the cool things that tumble around in my head from day to day.