I am many things; a mother, a wife, a daughter, a friend. I am also a crafter. And scrapbooking is generally my expression of choice but since becoming a mother, and even though it seems odd to say, especially a stay at home mother, scrapbooking has fallen by the wayside. You have all these big plans when you're pregnant of all the great things you'll be able to do since you stay at home, someone should snap their fingers in front of our face, wake us up, and tell us we're actually going to have less time to do those things then we ever thought. I don't have the money, time or space to sprawl out on the floor with a 7 foot radius of paper shreds, jagged cutting scissors, glue sticks and stickers around me so I needed to find a new way to challenge my need to express and craft and create.
This whole I need to blog thing actually happened accidentally and I wanted to give some credit to the woman who inspired me to indulge in this new challenge. I sat down one morning, flipped through the pages of my Parents magazine and found myself engrossed in the most heartbreaking, inspiring, beautiful story of Nella. After tearfully reading this story to my best friend Katie, she hopped on the computer and found Enjoying the Small Things, a blog by Kelle Hampton (Nella's mama), and I've been hooked ever since. Nobody loves life like this woman. She loves it and embraces it's challenges and has inspired me in so many ways; to not focus on the negative, to see the glass half full, to be a better mother... So a big thank you to Kelle for the inspiration! Check out her beautiful story here. And a side dish of thanks to Kate who pushed me and pushed me to do this. She told me every day something to the effect of "oh, wow, that would make a great blog" hint hint, nudge nudge. She knows I need this and will hate myself later if I don't do it so thank you babe, I'm sure I'm gonna be forever grateful!
I'm ready. I'm excited. I can't wait to dive into this little blog every night and tell it the happy's of my day. And if I never have one follower, that's okay, because this is for me, for me to find the beauty in life's incredibly ordinary days.
-jenn
