Hello Hello

I decided over the weekend that the things that happen in my life definitely need to be shared.  It will connect people on many levels....you will laugh, you will cry, you will soul search, (I hope), but most importantly, you will know that you are not alone in anything you encounter on this ride we call life.

Who am I? My name is Rebecca. I am a stay at home mom of two children.  Both boys, ages 4 and 14. (Yes, you can feel sorry for me at anytime.  BUT, you are only allowed to feel sorry for me that I am the only female living in a house of men.) The fact that I was blessed (and I truly am blessed, really I mean it) to have my two sons,  I think is God's way of showing us He really does have a sense of humor.

I have not always been a stay at home mom.  I have not always been human I think at times either...although they tell me that is impossible.  I had my first son at the age of 25.  I was single, living the life of....parties, no responsibility in the world and sadly, no direction whatsoever in my life. The day I realized I was pregnant, I decided two things.  I needed to grow up and get a life.  So, I enrolled in college and moved 2 hours away from all I knew and attended Ripon College. Many people shook their head at me and my "big dreams" of doing it all, by myself.  They expected me to fail.  To fall apart, to be a bad mom, to never get it together.  BUT I DID.  I had my son over Christmas break of my freshman year of college and started right back up again in January.  It was hard, I did want to fall apart many times, but I DID IT, I SUCCEEDED!!! It is one of the things I am most proud of.  Taking a life that was headed for nowhere good and turning it all around for the sake of the well being and future of my yet to be born son.  I could not have done that without the unending support of my family and the new friends I would meet along the way and most importantly God.

I eventually found love, and married my husband six years ago.  We were blessed with our second son two years later. This is when I learned that my true calling was to be a stay at home mom.  Or so I tell myself everyday when I want to run off to a job for quiet time. And little did I know that just another three years later would my husband announce to me (over the phone..I'm sure he was scared to tell me in person) that we would become chicken farmers.

Now, if you know me....I was not molded in the womb to come out with any type of aspirations of chicken farming. Or any kind of farming whatsoever.  I was destined to be a lawyer!  I was born to argue...and that was going to be my lot in life, somewhere in a big city with all kinds of bad guys that needed to be put away.  Instead, I live in Redgranite, WI on two and a half acres of land in the middle of nowhere, with six dogs, 14 chickens (25 more on the way), a cat and of course my three boys.  And oddly enough, when a city girl marries a country boy, she eventually does morph into this "Ma Ingalls" type of person...but definitely not overnight and there are times that it definitely rings true that you can take the girl out of the city, but you cannot take the city out of the girl.  There will be many stories about that in time....believe me.....

I also suffer from a disease called Meniere's disease.  You will not hear (or read) me complain about this often. I refuse to let it define me.  But, if we are getting to know me, then this is something  you need to know.  If you don't know what Meniere's is. Google it.  I am stage 4....and it will not get better...but hey, ironically enough, the Tilt-O-Whirl WAS my favorite carnival ride as a kid!  Now I get to ride it for free. Somehow, it seems so much more fun to pay for that ride than to get it for free.

I am a Christian. I will talk about Jesus and God often, after all, without them, I would not be where I am today, in fact, I would not be here at all probably.  They get all the credit for my accomplishments and actually keeping me alive this long.  It truly is a miracle. And they fill my heart with a love that I never knew when I wasn't following the path God really wanted me to.  It's a life of joy I hope for everyone and therefore, will, give them credit where credit is due.

So, here is to getting to know each other better.  Or rather, you getting to know me and sharing the antics of my crazy life that started down one path and got lost on the way to fame, fortune and stardom (I am, as you will find, the most geographically challenged person in the world!!! Really, I got lost last week WITH a GPS in my car...it can happen....) and ended up living large and loving life in the middle of nowhere, growing my own vegetables, canning the best salsa in Wisconsin every fall and knitting hats that sit on top of babies heads instead of wrapped ever so snugly around their cute little crown because I still cannot figure out gauge....I may never....for as highly educated as I am, sometimes I"m just not that smart.  I am however, blonde....and yes, I will use that as an excuse to my dying day.  You gotta do what works.

So this is a nutshell of all that I am.  I welcome you on this wonderful journey of life with me, and hopefully, we will all get through it alive. Oh wait...no one gets out of life alive...but here's to living it with no regrets from here on out!!!

Rebecca