Let me be brutally honest-I will probably not win any awards for best wife or mom and I am not proud of it but through all the challenges and TONS of mistakes I have made I have learned from each and every one of them. I am reminded every day how hard parenting is and how much work goes into keeping a great marriage. It is a lot of work!!! No one said parenting would be easy but no one said it would be so hard either. You would think that after taking on the challenging and unique behaviors/personalities of multiple foster children and children of our own that we would be pros in the parenting department but you would be sadly mistaken. I think I am a worse parent now then I was pre-children! Somewhere along the way I lost myself...lost my identity and became bitter and angry. My life did not turn out the way I planned. I did not picture my life like this. But here I am today-today's a new beginning. Today I vow to not be perfect but to be the best that God intended me to be. I give up being angry and bitter and instead want peace. I am giving my life back to my Creator because as hard as it may be for me to understand, this is where he intended me to be. Hopefully this blog will be encouragement to help me to become who I was created to be and to find my identity.
