Who knew I'd ever have a blog!

A good friend of mine has several blogs that I just love reading and so I thought that it might be fun to have my own blog. Well, after several hours of trying to figure out what I'm doing (and I'm still not sure I completely understand all of this - I'm technologically challenged), I'm finally writing something!

Now I have to figure out what I want to write about! For my first blog I think I'd like to write about the thing that makes me the happiest - my family.

I have been married for almost 25 years to my second (and last) husband who was always the love of my life, I just didn't know it at the time I married my first husband. I met him when I was in the 7th grade and he was in the 8th. We both worked at the vacation Bible school that our church had that summer. His sister was my best friend and so we were always together. As fate would have it though, he and I both married other people and it was only after divorcing our spouses that we ended up back together. The rest is history. I sometimes want to strangle him, but we can usually come to a mutual agreement before I get to that point. We have had very few arguments during our married life (I can probably count them on both hands) but when we do, they're doozies. But that's a whole other blog.

I have three grown children, 2 daughters and a son who is married to a very loved daughter-in-law and I have a 17 going on 40 year old granddaughter. Sure there are moments I want to drown them all and start over and then I remember the diapers, spit rags, croup and various other things that go along with raising children and I decided that I'll just keep the kids I have. Besides the good times with my children far outweigh the bad times and I really don't want to raise more kids (unless I can spoil them and send them home!). My kids are beautiful and I always tell them they were swapped at birth because they are so pretty, but I know they are all mine and I wouldn't have it any other way. I love them all.

Sometimes God has thrown our family curve balls, but we've always managed to catch them and make base hits out of them. It continues to be a wild ride with lots of challenges, but worth them all.

Life is not easy, it's always full of curve balls and challenges, but if you try really hard, you can hit a home run with them. Enjoy them all, no matter how fast they come at you!