Small Steps

Yesterday my friend Carmen & I had a talk about approaching life w/small steps which was based off of the sermon at our church this past weekend. It got me to thinking about my yard. I am totally intimidated by my yard-It is huge. There are trees, grass, hills, front, back, and I have no idea what to do with it. All of the women in my family were blessed with green and I mean green thumbs except for me. I can mow with the best of them, but that is about the extent of it. I have wanted to start a vegetable garden for a few years, and every spring comes & goes w/out me starting a garden due to various excuses, but I have only just realized that it hasn't happened because I am intimidated by the very thought. But in thinking about small steps there is hope...there is no reason why I have to tear up half of my yard to make a magnificent garden full of items that my family may not even eat. Thus, I have decided that the much needed small step in this case would be to start with one raised bed and go from there-that sounds doable.

Why does our family need another blog?

I feel slightly self-absorbed starting another blog in this household, but to be honest I kind of started to take over http://www.royce5000.blogspot.com/, which was Roy's photography blog to begin with. Initially there would be a photo or two of Levi & I, then I would want to make a post myself, and as of late I have really struggled with it not being very pretty and since Roy sees nothing wrong with the color gray I had no choice but to start up another blog. Besides, I like to write, and having a blog of my own would allow me to feel more comfortable to convey my thoughts and opinions of being a wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, homemaker, and follower of Jesus. So, I hope you will check in from time to time to hear about what stop we are on in our journey....I have recently only begun to embrace the idea of a journey, they previously seemed like too much work and often took place outside of my comfort zone, but they seem to be the best vehicle for lasting change so now besides enjoying the journey I want to learn to love the journey.