So this is blogging??????

Okay - so I have no clue what I'm doing. I have threatened to write my thoughts in a tome to my children for years. I've felt compelled to journal - but never when I could actually take the time to write or even find a writing instrument! But I'm going to try to blog - at least for today.

I know people (younger than me) who have a blog - normal people, even. These are not people who are overly self-important or even terribly verbiose. But they are interesting and often inspiring to me. So perhaps, someday, someone, might find a value in a thought I have!

About me.

I am a 46 year old mother, wife, co-worker, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, friend and believer.

I've been married to Ed for nearly 28 years! Wow - in print - that simple fact about my life is amazing and at the same time a very real testament to the miracles that God has worked in my life. Ed is a wonderful husband and father who has never once waivered in his commitment to our family and to me - he is a true gentleman. I love him.

God allowed Ed and I to borrow three children from Him during our marriage and we've done our best to rear them and love them. They too are amazing and another testament to God's work in my life. They were the easiest children to raise and love. They love others and have a keen sense of right and wrong. Katie, Caroline and Clay each have tender hearts and know they are loved not only by their parents and their family but most of all by their Creator and in this I know that Ed and I accomplished the most important of all parental resonsibilities!

I work for a employee benefit consultant firm - have for almost ten years. I'm grateful for this job. All I can say right now about that - maybe more later.

I love my mother - like many women (I think) I've had a lifelong need for her approval. I don't wake each morning thinking of it but when I am successful at something, she's usually the first I want to tell. Yes, I always clean my house when she visits - but I'm not as neurotic about it as I used to be. And I must admit, when I do things wrong, I still hope she doesn't find out!

I have wonderful friends. Ed and I married so young and had children so early that while other people our age were doing the "young adult" things with their friends, we were rearing children. It has just been in the past few years that I've had the time to enjoy special friendships; I do and am grateful!

And I love children! And Dancing with the Stars and Christmas and I think ELF is the best movie ever made.

Next time, where "waddie" came from.................