In the beginning...

We all have to start somewhere - sometime - somehow. Today is my day to begin. I chose this blog site because this is the one I learned about while taking a class on reading comprehension so I am more familiar here than some other place.

Now for the "why" of it all. I am a working mom and wife. What is so completely awesome about my job is that I teach. I chose a profession where my talents would be best utilized, where my day to day was never routine and when I work, my schedule would mirror the family I would hope to have someday. The career came before marriage and family. I met the awesome man that is my husband my first year teaching. We married three years later and it was just the two of us. It was that way for only two years when our family grew and our "girl-child" was born. We like to call her that because another two years later when our family grew again, we then had a "boy-child". So, with our girl-child and our boy-child my husband was completely happy and begged for us to stop with making of children (however, the art of practicing still occurs).

This brings me to where I am today. I've been teaching for 16 years. Our two kids are in school full time. My husband owns his own business and we both support each other with our chosen career paths. We both try our best to be actively involved with what our kids do - we try to make sure they are happy, have lots of friends, laugh, learn and just generally become "good people". So why do I have a title of "trying to have it all"?

As I write about myself, my family and my friends, I hope to decipher if that is the case in my life. Am I working for an unattainable goal? What is the "all" that I speak of?