Bourgeois - One of my favorite words, fun to say, fun to spell and means 'middle class'.
We are middle class. There is really no way around it. We live in Nashville in a teeny tiny home with both children sharing a bedroom. I wish we could say we live here because we love the humble size and close proximity of the neighbors. As much as I love that I can clean from top to bottom in 3 hours or less and I love LOVE our neighbors, we thought this would be a "starter home". Seven years later and a crashing economy, has turned our starter home into our starting-a-family-and-raising-our-kids-home. That's okay. We are comfy, or at least I keep telling myself this. ;)
Nicholas is a wholesale auto-broker, which means he goes to auto auctions, buys the cars that dealerships cannot resist, and sells them. I'm super proud of all of his hard work to provide for us. Nick loves traveling, fancy-pants beer, NASCAR, football, Australian V8 Supercars and anything James Bond.
Nicholas and I fell in love really quick (second sight?) and got married right after I turned 21. Our relationship is fun and real. We love to travel and were so fortunate to be able to take a trip to Australia in February. More on that later, let's just say it went to quickly and I'm still missing it. Here's my stud husband.
WAHM - Working At Home Mother
Pretty self explanatory, I work from home and I am a mother. I work for a local non-profit called the Ordinary Hero Foundation. Ordinary Hero encourages and inspires ordinary people to make an extraordinary difference in the life of a child in need. We work with kids and families all over the world. I am so blessed to be able to work from home. It's crazy and stressful at times, but keeps those pesky childcare bills low. Working for OH is a constant reminder of how 'middle class' in America means 'really really rich' in most of the world. We are abundantly blessed, no doubt.
I work anywhere from 20-40 hours per week depending on the season. Pretty much spring time is INSANE due to fundraisers and mission trips, and the rest of the year is "normal". Ordinary Hero is growing quickly, which is awesome and I'm blessed to be a part of it. I try really hard to work during "non-mothering" hours. If you are a mom you know there is no off-time or break, but naptime and bedtime are as good as it gets. Let me introduce work distraction #1 and #2:
#1 Holdenpotamus
Holden is 4 years old and lovingly referred to as Holdenpotamus. He was due December 19th, so we started singing "I want a holdenpotamus for Christmas..." Thanks to this song. Holden is full FULL of life. To be completely honest, he wears me out. BUT he is so so fun and never fails to says things to crack me up. Holden loves books, Thomas train tracks and playing outside. He is super affectionate and gives hugs and kisses all the time, which are two of my favorite things.
#2 Adelaide
This is Adelaide (not Addie - for the record). She will be two next month and I could eat her up. Really, it scares me sometimes - she's so sweet and I almost eat her. I don't, thankfully. She is like a sour patch kid...first she's sour, then she's sweet, so you have to watch our for her. She's just learned to give huge squeeze hugs, which is awesome. She can count to 10 - leaving out 7 and 9...those aren't important, are they? She is busy busy like any kid her age, but we are really enjoying that "girl thing" of playing quietly on her own. She climbs and is fearless, very unlike her older brother. Adelaide has a dairy allergy which keeps us away from our beloved pizza...we love her anyway. :)
This blog:
My goals for this blog are to keep anyone who is interested up to date on our life and the growings up of our children. I want to be real and transparent. I'm not really one to sugar-coat anything and I have a lot of opinions, so I'm sure this blog won't be lacking on those either.
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