Where in the world has this gal been??

  I am somewhere caught between wanting and being so much in this life that I tend to overwhelm myself and fall short on things that were once so important to me. I haven't posted in over three years...to my surprise this blog is still available and under my name so I am making a valid effort [in light of the new year] to blog at least once a month. Okay first and foremost, an updated picture. We attended a million dollar wedding this past fall and it was amazing!! This is a photo as we were heading to the actual wedding.

  So much has changed...my health has rapidly gone from bad to better to great to not so great to whatever. Hosting two rare diseases has really began to take a toll in some aspects of my body. I am challenged daily by the diseases and feel that some people still don't understand the diseases and/or think I am crazy...here are a couple links to catch you up to par on my health.

http://www.cmtausa.org/understanding-cmt/

http://ednf.org/

 If you choose to click on those links and learn more than thank you! If not, I understand time is money and you may not have the time to spend learning about things that may never personally effect you.

  Here's a quick 30 second overview...life was good with lots of normal issues. June 2011 diagnosed with two rare diseases, became a leader for the local support group for one of the diseases, continue to work at the gym and finished my college degree in 2014 [yeah!!] 2014-2015 subbed for two local school districts and also got into leadership with a women's ministry, 2015 began a small cupcake business, now 2015-2016 homeschooling our youngest with two still in high school. Now you are caught up to speed.

  So what is my vision for this blog? Well honestly I am in need of an outlet...a place to speak without being judged [although some will still judge me and that's totally fine] I am working on a family YouTube channel where my kids and I can post videos about everything from baking to video gaming to make up/hair, whatever! We love to do stuff like that but really want to help others and figured we could do so by offering what we have learned in life so far. :)

  I will be posting about leggings..yes leggings here in the next week. I had some revelations regarding them and need to speak bluntly about them so stay tuned!! I will also be posting information about health and wellness. We have a Tabata Challenge [interval/HIIT style training classes] beginning in a few weeks at our gym, so I am hoping to update you on that and perhaps teach you some stuff that you may not know! Other future blogs will include baking ideas and shortcuts, information on my diseases as I see fit and possibly my adventures in homeschooling and WHY we choose this route for our youngest.

Thanks for reading this and until next time...