*Ever Since I Was a Little Girl*

Well, it's been a LONG TIME coming!!  Ever since I was a little girl I have dreamed of growing up and becoming a mom!  Well, I also wanted to be a teacher as well, but my life long dream was to have 6 children and raise them in the way I felt they should be raised!  My parent's always did a great job raising 4 children, and made it look so easy, so I didn't think adding 2 more to that mix would be too difficult!  Until I got to my teenage years~ I still wanted 6 children, but I was going to let my children do the things I wanted to do; when my parents wouldn't let me do them!  But, as I think back, I did A LOT when I was a teenager!  It seems like I was always with my friends~ There were only a few times I don't think my parents let me do something I wanted to do (which was probably something stupid anyway)!

Well, I grew up got older (for the most part), went to college (which took me longer than your average 4 years), got a job teaching (which was great) met a wonderful guy, and finally got married at the age of 28!  My husband and I are both hard headed and strong willed people (which usually don't go hand in hand) so we butted heads a lot on things we felt strongly about.  One of these things was, the number of children we would have!!  Over the years, I had grown to realize that having 6 children truly was out of the question for me (and us as a couple)!  My husband was adamant he wouldn't have more than 2 children!  I HATED this idea!  I was heart broken!  I tried to reason with him and say "you are a third child and I am a third child, so lets have 3!"  I thought it was only a fair idea.... don't you??  Anyway; I think I am losing that battle really fast!

After being married for a year and a few months, I found out I was unexpectedly pregnant with our first child!  Something we wanted to wait another year for, but honestly, I know God had other plans for us!  And it actually was PERFECT timing!  We had our first son, Sylas, in October of 2009!

After Sylas was born, I continued to work.  I wasn't teaching anymore, I was working at a local Gym, in their Aquatics Department.  As an employee I received 4 hours of childcare a day, so it was a "no brainer" on our part for me to continue to work.

Of course, within months of our son being born, I was ready for another child!  I always wanted my children fairly close in age.  However, i had to wait for my husband to be on board with this~ Our son was just a few months shy of turning 2 when my husband said he was ready for another child!  I was SOO EXCITED!!  We got pregnant right away (which was a blessing)!  We found out we were pregnant on my birthday in August, and we waited for several weeks before telling our family and friends.  We would add another bundle of joy to our little family towards the end of April of 2012.


After many conversations with my husband and us going back and forth on a VERY difficult decision which would affect our lives in a major way, I quit my job!  I am now officially a Stay At Home Mom (SAHM)!!!  Ever since I was a little girl I have dreamed of growing up and becoming a mom!  Now, with TONS of thanks to my wonderful husband, who works his bum off, I am very fortunate to be able to stay at home with my babies! 

This is my cleaned out office on my last day of work!  I will blog about about my last few days of work another time; now my blog will consist of posts about our lives of being at home and the fun "field trips" we do!!