Hello again! Thank YOU for your comments! I really did not expect anyone to even read this blog, what a neat little blessing for me today to find the sweet messages and great advice some some fellow "in the trenches" Real Moms like me!!!

 As you can tell, I didn't do much of a good job at keeping up with this venture so far, I started this in August and now it is SEPT. 1, wow, time flies by doesn't it?! But at least I am here now doing this and maybe it will become more of a regular thing for me. It really is a nice "just for me" kind of thing to do. I have actually been doing pretty well with my depression, I haven't been in the really low moods for awhile but it has been HARD folks, really hard this past month. I kinda wish I had gotten on here more now and recorded my "adventures" as they un-folded. It will be hard to sum-up here what all went on and do it any justice. Justice,hmmm, that actually has a part in this all. Let me first explain that I am divorced and re-married. Something that I would have never thought would happen to me. I come from a Christian home, a pastors kid, my folks will be married 50 years this January, my grandparents were married 60 years....our family was not one that had many divorces in it, and I never realized how fortunate I was back then. Isn't funny how that happens, how the grass is always greener on the other side? I remembering thinking my friends were "lucky" because they had two homes to go to, their Moms house and their Dads house.They also had the "cool" parents in my eyes because they had much more freedom.Their Mom's worked outside the home and they had the house "to themselves" alot of the time...I thought that was totally awesome.

 Flash forward many years....here I am in a "blended" family. I had 5 children with my first husband. I have had two children with my present husband and he has two children from a previous marriage. And guess what, I realized somewhere along the line that this is NOT the "cool" way to go after all, LOL. How wonderful it would be if I had a regular boring marriage and family like my Mom and Dad had !

 Of course, I thank God everyday for my wonderful husband and that He can still work through the tangles and snares of our complicated lives to form a FAMILY here. I am blessed, I do realize that.  I am just saying that I don't reccomend this method of family- making, and pray that my children have normal, boring type lives.   ; ) uh oh, baby is up, to be continued~