Race Day – March 24th 2006, Charleston, SC
The moment our daughter Meredith was placed in my arms I arrived to the starting line of the Motherhood Race. Her sweet newborn cry was the jolting ‘bang!’ that started this life long run. My strength to endure is my faith in God. Since the race has begun my husband and I navigated the route for 2 years and then we added another ‘leg’, Baby Trevor. I have started this blog to share our adventures in parenthood – my adventures in the motherhood race.
Today I am writing from South Eastern Connecticut. Due to the Navy’s needs, my husband moved us up here this past spring then had to leave us for a while. I had two choices – sit at home and allow the ‘rotten Groton’ mentality to paralyze our experience – or to embrace a ‘grow where planted’ mentality. I chose to pick up my roots and hit the ground running – all of New England and then some!
I am a 'GO' Girl. Every morning I wake up and pray for God to help me navigate through my thoughts, words, and actions. I ask him to help me be a better mom, wife, daughter, and friend. I have learned, the best way to get through each moment is what I call the 'manna system' - I get just enough strength to make it through challenges and obsticales. Whether this obsticale is presented in my goal to continue to live a healthful lifstyle, or the challenge of adjusting my parenting techniques (again, and again, and again).
It doesn't matter my time when I finish. What matters is what I did with the time given.
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