I did not go missing!

This past week we have been busy just enjoying ourselves and trying to keep the house from falling down around us :)! I have started several blog posts but not been able to finish any of them  because blogger was not working correctly or my computer was being painfully slow. Well on to the good news…. thanks to my parents who got us this new spiffy laptop (this should solve the slowness) and my bloggy/real life friend Fatima for suggesting some new software to blog from (this should solve the issues with blogger) I should be able to get this thing going again!!! A big THANK YOU to Mom and Dad and Fatima!! Now if anyone can solve the business of life causing my house to fall apart just let me know, I will be more than happy to thank you on my blog ;).  I will see you all again in a few days when my wonderful husband gets my photos transferred to my new laptop so that I can finish up my posts and share them with you. Thanks for reading….it means bunches!

A New Experience

Since I had Trinity 4 1/2 years ago and then Keenan 18 months ago I realized that they do and say some really funny things and my mom's words always ring in my ear "You should write that down because you think you will never be able to forget those things but you will"! So this is my effort at writing those things down, to share them with you but mostly to preserve them for myself and my family.

As for the name, well that took a while. With the enlisted help of my husband (who steered me away from my list of cheesy titles I had come up with) I hit on Experienced Amateurs. He suggested the use of an oxymoron, but I am proud to say that I came up with the exact oxymoron you see at the top of this blog :)! You see I am not that great at creatively naming things so this was an accomplishment. I liked it, it seemed to sum up my life in just two words. I have had many, many experiences and will certainly have many more and I am even experienced at several things: teaching, laundry, talking, talking, boating, bike riding, playing with my kiddos and talking (I think I forgot to mention that one ;)) the list could go on and on (remember experienced does not always = mastery, ha ha) but even with all that experience I am still an amateur at life and everything about it. I am reminded this daily by my two beautiful children, I never know what they are going to throw my way so even with all this experience and these experiences I am still just an amateur. I am learning to take each day, hour, min and sometimes even second as it comes and trying to do it with all the experience an amateur can have. Praying that this amateur can do it with kindness, gentleness, peace, laughter, joy, compassion and a whole lot of patience.

Here's to the experiences that this blog will bring me and to the hope that it will be a fun journey!