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Obligatory Inaugural Post

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

I've been meaning to blog for... well, for as long as I've been interested in reading your blogs.  If you stick around a while, you'll learn that I struggle with always striving to achieve perfectionism.  This angst often leads to great things, but occasionally causes me to give up just shy of completion.  Instead of continuing to procrastinate the telling of what I believe to be an amazing journey, I will begin.  But not at the beginning... I'm sure there will be time for that later.  This blog starts during the middle of our tale, a charmed life full of love, joy and shenanigans with three beautiful boys.

Husband and I are fortunate enough to call Northeast Ohio home (as you can tell, I'm not writing this during winter, in which case, I would replace fortunate with cursed).  I'm a displaced Texan, and I will remind you of that at any opportunity.  We have three dear sons, ages 10, 2 and 6 months.  We both work full time, and we try and play full time too.  Sometimes this makes for long days.

I continue to learn what it means to be a "grown-up."  I struggle with squeezing everything I want to do into one 24-hour period, but that's not a terrible problem to have.  I try and remember that a full schedule means I have so much love to give, and an incredible amount of people who love me.  I'm in love with this life, and I'm thrilled to share all the beautiful things I learn along the way.

Welcome to our journey: a glimpse into a family of five, with two working parents and lots of big dreams... charmed shenanigans.

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  1. Thanks for reading, Steph! I'm excited to share my passion and my crazy tales with the world!

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