About

I am a 25-year-old working-stay-at-home-mom.  I graduated high school in 2005, then moved (30 minutes away) to Hammond, LA for college.  I joined the greatest sorority in the world, Alpha Omicron Pi, which I pretty much allowed to consume my life throughout my college years.  I held pretty much every office possible within those 4 years, and wouldn't change a single moment of it.  I started college as an Elementary Education major, then I switched to Social Work.  I had a weird experience during some field hours where a hospital patient was eating his own scabs, and needless to say I switched back to Education the next day.  Somewhere around my Junior year, I changed to Family and Consumer Sciences with a concentration in Family Studies, which is what I ultimately graduated in in 2009.  I started Grad School two weeks later and got my Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy in May 2012.

 

 

Because why not?

 I changed paths a million times because I could never figure out what I really wanted to do with my life.  Actually, that's not true at all.  I've always known - in the way that you know the grass is green and the sky is blue and that Ice Ice Baby is the greatest song ever written - that I wanted to be a mom.  That's not really something you could major in though, although FCS is probably as close as you could get!  When I met Chris, I knew that not only did I want to be a mom, but I wanted to have a family with him.  He was a total game changer for me, but that's another story for another day.  I knew immediately that God's calling for us was to be together and work hard at it, and obviously I was right.  Our daughter was born on July 13, 2012 ... just two months after I finished Grad School.  God really saved me from all the drama of having to figure out all this "career stuff" I wasn't too interested in at the time!

 

 

Although Lily was admittedly quite a huge shock for us, I think I can speak for both Chris and myself in saying that she has been the biggest miracle in the sweetest little package.  She has brought so much happiness, fulfillment, peace, and meaning to our lives.  She may not have been in our "immediate plan", but I thank God for laughing at our foolish plans and blessing us with something we never dared to dream of at the time.

 

 

I recently started a job in November 2011 (which is completely unrelated to any of my fields of study, for which I am very grateful), that was initially intended to just be a bit of financial contribution to our growing family.  I cried every single day on the way to work after dropping Lily off (even though she was with my parents, who are AMAZING!).  It felt like I finally had everything I ever wanted, but I was missing out on all of it.  I had never done anything that felt so wrong or unnatural in my life.  I prayed and prayed for patience, guidance, acceptance, and an open mind and heart.  In February, my boss called me in and offered me the opportunity to work my position from home.  God is so good!  So now our days are a juggling act of work, laundry, dishes, feeding times, play time, and everything in between.  Being a stay-at-home-mommy is FAR from easy, but I cannot imagine spending my days any other way.  Lily is the most amazing little girl, and I am so honored and humbled to be by her side as she grows and changes and learns about the world around her.

 

 

I could talk about our little family's plans for the future, but let's be honest - what do we know?!  We have learned first-hand how very little control we have over our lives and fates, and why would we ever want to be the ones calling the shots when God's plans always totally trump ours?!  So we'll see what happens!  I am loving life and everything about it right now, so why fix something that isn't broken? :)