Entering the World of Blogging

I have been wanting to write a blog for some time.  I had one a while ago, a typical blog updating the grandmas about the family, but it never came out how I wanted it to.  Now that I have changed my life quite a bit I've been wanting to start over.  One of my hangups though was the fact that I am not a great writer.  Which interferes with one of my aspirations in life which is to write a book.  So, this morning, as I was reading a friend's blog she inspired me.  The best way to become a better writer is to write.  I have spent a lifetime pretending my life was something it wasn't and now that my life is wonderful, it's still hard for me to present myself as I am.  I am afraid to admit that some things are still not perfect.  Which is silly, I know.

So here I am, simply a normal average person with normal average fears and aspirations.  One of those aspirations is to be inspirational.  I want to live a life that makes other people want to be better.  I want to be the sort of person who when you meet you think, wow, my life is somehow better because I met her.  I know it's a high aspiration and not one you can exactly work on attaining.  For example, I have a new sister-in-law that I really admire.  I have only met her once, but she is amazing.  She heads up fundraisers, she works with college women in crisis, coaches local basketball teams and does an amazing amount of good for the people around her.  I barely know all the things she is involved in and I am blown away...imagine if I really knew her well.  I have a friend that went through a terrible marriage and is finally divorced and on her own.  It isn't easy, but she inspires me everyday with how she handles life.  I have a friend with eight children and she makes it look easy.  I go to school with many amazing people who have had huge trials in life and all they want to do is help others.  I am surrounded by inspiring people and I hope one day to be like them.

For now I am simply Jen.

Happily married to an amazing man who believes in me.  

I have three wonderful children that some days drive me crazy and some days blow me away with their abilities.  

I am addicted to chocolate and weigh more than I would like.  

I enjoy playing stupid games on my phone and love posting on Facebook.  

I am fascinated by people.  

I love going to school.  

My house is messy more often than it is clean.  I rarely get all my laundry put away.  

I like working out, sometimes.  I would walk for miles in the morning if I had a girlfriend to walk with me.  

I'm not enraptured with my house anymore, as someone said, it is not winter friendly.  In fact I hate winter, being cold hurts.  My husband has noted that my optimum temperature is 78 degrees...77 is too cold, 79 is too hot.  I am designed to live in Hawaii.  

I cry easily and I laugh even easier.  

I love enjoying life, I really do.  Some of my favorite times are when I am with my husband and children and we are all being silly and laughing.

That, to me, is what life is all about.