Where Have You Been?

For years I had maintained this blog for people to connect for personal life updates, but it was also a space for me to share thoughts about what is going on in our world and part of my world is the church community. In the past two years my community scope has expanded... actually a lot has happened since the last blog post... and here is a quick run down for those who aren't on my facebook or instagram pages for those daily musings:

- Got married... yeah that was kinda big guys. Life changing.
- Got pregnant... and it definitely happened AFTER walking down the aisle, but we welcomed our daughter in May 2017 before our 1 year anniversary.
- This year started creating and managing my own content for the "mom" community on Instagram and Facebook: SAHM Chronicles. It has allowed me to connect to my new community, find solace in some changes, encouragement, and hopefully giving those things out.
- Still living in Los Angeles... and trying to get out.

Those are the big things. Through those things my views have been rocked, matured, changed, and some have all together been proven wrong. It is crazy how marriage and having a baby and becoming a parent changes things and yet for us SO quickly. These are the greatest things but also scary to be in territory not previously passed through or chartered and a lot of it has become "learn by doing".

The reoccurring theme that keeps coming across in all these changes and life is COMMUNITY. The importance of community and that community being one that is healthy, speaks truth in love, and grows deeper and deeper as time goes on. My husband and I have made some big changes to what that community looks like and in coming posts will expand on that. This year.... also will be looking to brand my content with my own URL verses going through blogger to personalize further and building whatever brand I am looking to build (I honestly can go in so many directions). I definitely need to redirect it as it contains my maiden name, and I am all about moving forward and part of that is building my identity as a wife and part of this amazing family unit I am building and became part of through my husband as well.

I have been told for years to pursue this "writing thing", and that people would be interested in what I have to say... so we shall see. Perhaps there are more than 10 people out there who care about my world and life views, what I am learning as I navigate through this thing they call "Parenthood", and considerably what I am learning as a newly married wife who went from working full time to becoming a stay at home parent.

This post is in no way profound.... it is more of picking up where I left off without droning on about the past two years because so much can be brought into a post on its own. Perhaps I may even finally express my true feelings of our current political climate, as I stayed uncharacteristically silent in the last election and the outcome.