Just the Beginning

Wow! I can’t believe I finally started a blog! I suppose I will start with an explanation of this blog’s title.

I am a young military wife and mother. Our life revolves around the military. Hurry up and wait, if you will. We are at the beginning of our journey with Uncle Sam, but I couldn’t imagine not being in this relationship. My heart bleeds red, white, and blue with pride-not only for my husband, but also for all the other defenders of freedom current and past, for the freedom they’ve fought for, and for the good left in this nation. So there you have the “Red, White, and Blue” part.

I think “Living” is pretty self-explanatory. I am a college student working towards a degree in Elementary Education. I’m a primarily stay at home mom, even though we’re not home very much. We live within our means, couponing, saving, thrifting. You get the picture I’m sure!

And then there’s “Loving”! This is my favorite part! I love my husband, of course. And I love my Lord. He is so gracious to our family. And I love my daughter, who was quite the surprise. My hubby and I joke that God has a sense of humor because we had a 5 year plan. We got married 3 weeks after I graduated high school, so once we moved to where my husband was stationed I was going to start college the next semester and then get a job as a teacher, and THEN we’d think about starting our family. Well, 5 MONTHS into our marriage, we found out there was a bun in the oven. And the more I find out about the contraception I was using and my fertility obstacles, the more and more I’m amazed at the miracle that is my daughter. Oh, how I adore that sassy child, who is apparently exactly like me. (What goes around, comes around, ladies!)

 Anywho, as much as I love my little sassafras, I can’t help but feel like our family is incomplete. So, we’ve been “TTC” (Trying to Conceive) for over a year and a half. In September 2012, I finally got that positive test that I had been praying for! And then…I lost the baby. The heartbreak of losing the one thing in the world that you wanted so badly… it crushed me. So after going through that, we started to talk about adoption, which led to fostering.

Believe it or not, my Senior year in high school a couple came into our Bible class and talked to us about fostering, and ever since then, it’s been in the back of my heart. So when hubby and I started discussing foster care, I felt very strongly about it. But since my husband is the logical man that he is, we said that if we didn’t have a baby by Christmas 2013, we’d start the process of becoming foster parents. So here we are…. Christmas Eve… not pregnant. So after many prayers and much research, we called DFCS and are getting started! It’s this huge step in our lives, and I’m so ready to LOVE these children.

Love them through the good, the bad, the ugly, the pain, the rebellion, the visitations, the counseling, the struggles, the milestones, the celebrations, the reunions, and maybe even the adoptions. Because they deserve to be loved and cared for and shown the JOY in life. They deserve stability and fun and adventures! They deserve to know that whatever their family did to lose them was NOT THEIR FAULT. They deserve… LOVE. And I want to show them that.

So here I write this little blog. I don’t know if anyone will read it, but it’s out there. And I’m excited to start this journey and share it with you along the way.