I can't tell you how often I hear, "I don't know how you do it Jen." And I have to admit in the moment, I never know how to answer or what to say other than,"What are my other choices? I have to do it." I'm not trying to be illusive or make you wonder why that comment is made to me often. Some things in my life, I don't share on the blog for privacy reasons. What I do put out here on the blog, seems like everything is always extraordinary and wonderful. For the most part it is, but my life is hard work, work that can't always be seen by others. The day to day can be a real challenge. Motherhood, teaching, marriage, finding time for myself, fills my days in wonderful, and sometimes awful ways. What keeps me going in the difficult times, is a variety of things, that I sometimes don't even realize I do. But these "things" can be summed up in one word...Faith. I don't think of myself as religious, although I did go to Catholic sch...
Somedays I feel like I've done it all. To look at me, you might say "now that's an ordinary mom". Dig a little deeper and you'll find I've led a pretty interesting life, done some pretty extraordinary things, especially once I became a mother of four wonderful, extremely different children! Unique personalities and needs, all wonderful, trying and glorious at the same time!