Welcome!

I want to welcome you to my new blog.  I've been blogging for a few years.  I started out with a blog about my family, then I moved on to blogging about food.  This blog will be a combination of the two.  I pray that it will also be a blessing and a source of encouragement for those who visit.

For those of you who are "new" to my life, I'll give you a very brief history.  I have been married to my husband / best friend for 13 years.  We have 5 children...3 of them are my step-sons, 2 of them are a creation of my husband and I.  We have moved around the country MANY times.  We have finally laid down our roots, living in the same city for the past 6 years.  For those of you who know us, you know that this is HUGE!  I have been a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM, for future reference) for the past 12 years.  There have been times in the past where I thought the grass was greener on the other side...wanting to work outside the home.  After attending Massage Therapy school for a period of 8 months (3 days a week, 7 hours a day) I quickly realized that the grass was plenty green on MY side of the fence.  This is when I finally realized how blessed I was...as a wife, as a mother, and as a woman.  I can proudly say that I am perfectly content with my life...ecstatic, even!  God has blessed my family in ways too numerous and awesome to even begin to describe in writing.

Again, it is my prayer that you may find encouragement and inspiration in my "little corner of the world".  I pray that you may be blessed by my stories and recipes (yes, RECIPES).  Have a beautiful and blessed day.