Mom’s turn

Hello all!  My name is Shelby, and I am a

• Wife
• Mom
• Nurse
• Daughter
• Granddaughter
• Aunt
• Sister
• Friend
• Teacher
• Counselor
• Pet Momma
• Gardner (sorta)
• Writer (kinda)
• Chef (I haven’t burned the house down yet)
• Laundress (not my favorite)
• Dish Fairy (definitely not my favorite)
• Homework Guru (yeah right)
• Book Worm
• Finder of lost socks and legos

Yes, like many of you working mommas, I hold many titles.  Some I love more than others.  Some are the best there is in life.  And I do my best to give my best to each and every one of them.

Don’t get me wrong.  Ask anyone that knows me if I actually have it together enough to be able to do any of these jobs and they’ll just give you a look like you’ve dropped your basket.  I don’t have it together, and after all these crazy years I can finally admit that I don’t, and that’s okay.

Why, you ask?  How can it be okay that I’m not always okay?  How can it be okay that I was late to work, again, because I turned my alarm off, again?  How can it be okay that I missed dinner, again, because I was working late, again?  How can it be okay that the laundry is piled to the rafters in the laundry room, and the sink is full of smelly day old dishes?  How can it be okay that I have absolutely no idea how to help my son with his math homework, and may lose my mind trying?  How can it be okay that I still can’t train the stupid, oh sorry I meant cute, puppy not to steal every single sock in this crazy house? How can it be okay that Matt Damon can grow potatoes in his own poop on Mars, but I can’t get one single plant to even think about growning in my garden?  How can it be okay…well you get the picture.

There’s one title I didn’t put on the list that makes all my not okayness (yeah I made that up), okay.  One title that wipes all that other craziness out and trumps any title I have or will ever hold.  I am a Child of God!  I serve a wonderful, Holy, Risen Savior that takes all my not okayness, and turns it into something beautiful.

Its taken a lot of hard learned lessons for me to finally see His beauty in the midst my chaos.  It’s taken a lot of struggle through each and every one of my many titles to see that He is ultimately in control of them all.

I hope you’ll join my family and I on this great adventure through life, finding His beauty in the chaos. I hope that you will pray with us, laugh with us (or at us, I am the queen of unintentional entertainment), cry with us, travel with us, learn with us, and love with us.  I also hope that you will share with us the beauty that God creates out of your own chaos.