My First Post...

Meet the loves of my life: my family. I was blessed to FINALLY meet the man of my dreams after kissing A LOT of frogs.  After traveling the world and trying to find a place where I belonged, I realized, like Dorothy, that perhaps my dreams lay somewhere nearer my own backyard.   I lived in London, Hungary, and China for a while, studying and later teaching English.   By my second year in Hungary, I was getting a bit homesick.  One of my old friends began writing me, telling me that he had a different calling than the business world where he once lived.  He was now studying to be an English teacher.  I congratulated him and silently thought "well, he'll never make a lot of money."  By the end of my teaching stint in Europe, I was ready to go home to little ole North Carolina.  My dad met me at the airport with a plane ticket to Michigan, sent by said English teacher.  Though I didn't fly out that day, I found myself boarding another plane a few weeks later and flying into another adventure.  

Neal, my penniless husband--yes he did become an English teacher, and I never dated;  we just corresponded for two years and decided to tie the knot in 1994.  We now live in North Carolina--about 30 miles from my own backyard.  We have two teenage girls, Caroline and Sophie.  We visit Michigan as often as we can.  (My husband has a big family and a TWIN!)   

The last year has brought a great deal of change to our lives:  I started homeschooling my 13 and 15 year olds.  Whew!  This has been a journey.  I find myself TRYING to live out the Proverbs 31 life, but TYRING is sometimes all that happens.  

I am making a "house" here to store all my goodies that I have stolen borrowed from other folks on the internet and the homeschooling community.   

And here is a BIG thank you to all those brave, God-fearing women who have come before me in an effort to be a Woman Who Fears the Lord.

Blessings!

Tammy