Breaking the cycle...

oh the intro....

Can you imagine a baby sitting in a crib all alone, crying, screaming for someone to come pick her up? Yea, me either, but that was me!

Let me start out by introducing myself. Hi, my name is Hannah Maples, I am 30 years old and have had a lot of life! Life now is pretty good unlike my upbringing, but let's not worry about that just yet, we will dive into that later. I have been married to my husband for 8 years and we have 3 beautiful children, Houston age 7, Kensley age 5, and Dacoda age 1 (this is a girl :D) I have a bachelors degree in child development and a Masters in Education. I am employed by a company called Burrell. (you thought I was going to say I am a teacher weren't you?!) lol I was a teacher for 8 years, but God called me to go another avenue. I now have the opportunity to help children who are just like I was! (very exciting for me) Honestly my life now is amazing, nothing like what I grew up in. Life is grand because of the blessing that have been poured upon me by our Lord!......Now to get down to the nitty gritty.... :) Hold on!!!

Okay so in order to start my story I have to take you first to before my life began to really give you an insight of my life.

My mother was raised in a pretty abusive home, she witnessed her mother brutally beat her brother and sister and perform awful acts on them, although my mother was not the victim of the abusive personally, it still left an impact on her present and future. Okay now flashback to a little bit before I came to this world. My mother was scared to become a mom because she didn't want to repeat the cycle. ( you know that cycle in the title of this blog) Well, that is exactly what she did. She began my little life with having nothing to do with me....go back to that first sentence....you know the baby in the crib alone crying. :(

My mother was so scared to become her mother that she wouldn't have anything to do with me....until she finally did.....and so it began.

Because of my mother, my life was filled with abuse....all abuse....the kind of abuse that no one ,let a lone a child should ever under go. In this blog I want to step you into bits and pieces of my life. To say it was sad is an understatement...pitiful, depressing....pretty much any negative word you can think of would go right here.

If you can handle it please stay with me and I will walk you through the darkest times of my life, but don't let that get you down....I promise there is a happy ending....well not exactly an ending, but a becoming because I am still here to shed that light on the world...the light that God blessed me with. My purpose is to glorify Him and show everyone that all is possible with Him even in the un impossible circumstances.

Stick with me and I will walk you through it all! (it's not all bad)