Here we go!

A few people encouraged me to start a blog way back (you know who you are, you wonderful women), and I resisted for a while based on the fact that there are SOOOO many mommy blogs out there, most of them very well done. What could I possibly add that was new and different. Does the world need to see another crayon craft or hear about how many messes little kids make? We know how many messes they make. I just found 37 hand-prints made out of dried mud on the back of my white-sided house.

But recently, I have been finding that there are things I want to say, show or share that don't fit my Facebook account, and also I have come to the realization that while there are oodles of blogs out there, there is only one me.

Revolutionary, I know.

For instance, while you may have freezer meals made for the next two weeks, the raw ingredients for my dinner are typically frozen SOLID an hour before we eat. And while so many mamas create dazzling projects with their kids, I scrounged up money to buy a science museum membership this year for my five so they wouldn't be subjected to hearing me cuss in German every time I tried to strip wires for their school science experiments. So I think it is safe to say that just the fact that I am writing this from my chaotic, happy, slightly off-kilter head, it will be new and different.

So I am starting “Wabi Sabi Seven” – a place where we can live intentionally and find beauty in the imperfect and incomplete. I don't really have an agenda or master plan, but you can expect to hear about most of my favorite things: Christ-following, the epiphany of parenting, homeschooling, cooking and books/movies. And whatever. It's living intentionally, which in my dictionary means forcing myself to walk off the map every once in a while.

Today, inspired by my friend Amy Rebecca, we are starting out with the beauty of pizza. Here we go!