All About Me

For lack of a better phrase, this "All About Me" post attempts to explain the name for this blog.  You know the "wannabe" types...people who want to be something they're not.  That isn't really the reason I chose the name.  I mean there are days that I feel that way, but I love who I am.  I love being a wife to my best friend that makes me laugh hysterically and a mother to my toddler,  who is as funny as his daddy.  I love staying at home right now for the first time ever, even if there are days that I feel like adult conversations are things of the past and that I spend the majority of my time trying to remind my son to go to the bathroom in the potty instead of his pants.  No, right now I know I'm where God wants me to be, so enough already.  What's with the wannabe name? 

 Well, I'm the perfectionist type.  One of those souls that is constantly striving to be more and do more.  This can be a good thing, but it can also be quite a vice.  Never feeling as if you're quite good enough or doing enough...laying awake nights thinking of things you should have said or ways you should've dealt with your children.  It can be tiring.  So I've labeled myself a "wannabe" and will hopefully change the connotation of that label into a completely positive thing one day.  

There it is:  I'm a wannabe!  I'm a wife that wants to be more loving to her husband, even on the days when my hormones from being 6 months pregnant are raging and these weird veins that have appeared on the back of my left leg during this pregnancy make me never want to wear shorts again.  I'm a mom who wants to remain calm at all times, even when my toddler isn't being as obedient as usual or just dumped all his toys on the playroom floor after I just cleaned them up.  I'm a former teacher who wants to be at home right now, but still wonders where the years of schooling, not to mention the student loans from grad school fit into my new life.  I'm a woman who just relocated to another state that wants to find as good of friends as I left behind when we moved.  And last, but of course not least, I'm a Christian that wants an even deeper relationship with my Savior, but who gets frustrated  with my constant shortcomings and how there are times that I feel that God has to teach me the same lessons again and again.  Yep...a wannabe, that's me.  So there you have it.  A little about who I am and the purpose for this blog of mine.  Enjoy!