Welcome!

Let's see...where to start? I guess the appropriate place to start would be the beginning, but that would take a while and possibly bore you to tears, so I'll start with some basics. Please bare with me as a ramble through a couple of paragraphs.

Who am I? I am a Stay-at-home-mom (SAHM) to two small children (a boy, age 1 and a girl, age 3.5) and my husband's full-time wife and girlfriend (or at least I try to be). I'm originally from the California Central Valley-Modesto but within the last month or so, have picked up and relocated to a small town in Connecticut. Yes, we moved almost as far away within the United States as we could to the dismay of my parents and in-laws. My husband originally worked as an ICU RN in California and decided, at age 27 that he wanted to go farther in his career, so he applied and got in to Nurse Anesthesia school. That's what brings us here to Cheshire.

The past month has been a huge adjustment! We rented out our California home, we purchased it before the bubble had burst (in '06) and can't sell it. We refuse to walk away, so our only other option was to rent it out. We sold many of our possessions in an effort to scale down on what had to be moved, and loading everything else into an ABF U-Pack truck (thank you ABF-you were awesome!). Initially we were planning on driving with our then almost 11 month-old and 3 year old cross-country, but thought better of it. I don't know if we would have all arrived in one piece, let alone our marriage surviving, had we driven the 5-6 days it would have taken us. So we decided instead to cough up the money and fly-so much better, though if you've ever flown several hours with two little-ones, you know what a nightmare that can be all on it's own! So, here we are, on the other side of the US not knowing a soul.

That is what brings me to this blog-the not knowing a soul here in Connecticut, in part and the SAHM thing. Many stay-at-home-ladies know that working in the home for your family day after day, not spending 8.5 hours among your peers can get lonely at times. Now, add to that being a full-time mommy somewhere where you have no connections, not a one. It's really quite strange. I feel a little like a military wife. I don't know how you women how do it! So, in an effort to connect just a little to some other moms and wives, I decided to start a blog. I have a few ideas as to what I'd like to see this evolve into, but for now, I'll keep most of that to myself as we females often do have a tendency to be rather indecisive in the matter of what would really make us happy. Just know, this will be full of rants and frustrations, child-rearing, husband-rearing (lol), household money saving tips, recipes, politics and everything else under the sun I feel like discussing. But mostly, I want this to be encouraging to all of the SAHMs out there because, believe me, I know it can be very difficult. Stay tuned!