Why hellllllooooo there!
So, here’s the deal:
I know there’s a lot of you out there.
Don’t think I don’t have Google Analytics installed.
You think you’re sneaky, eh?
Reading my blog, sneaking out the backdoor to meet your other blog boyfriend?
Yeah, well, this mama ain’t dumb.
She hears that screendoor slam shut behind the three inch stillettos you can hardly walk in…
Actually, I totally understand.
I stalk blogs too.
The reality is that I often don’t have time to comment, or I feel like I don’t have anything to say (shocking), or I don’t have both hands free to actually type!
BUT, if you are a blogger, you know what I mean when I say that COMMENTS MATTER.
Honestly, they. make. my. day.
So, take this as a virtual guest book. Complete with a goofy feathered pen. And two little girls standing there supervising.
Take a sec, comment here, say hello, introduce yourself.
It’d make my day.
For reals.
Then you won’t feel so guilty when you think you’re being all stealth.
‘Cuz you’re totally not.
Just so you know.
(credit for de-lurk idea goes to gypsy mama!)
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Good Morning! I found you from Lisa Leonard’s blog and am so happy I stopped by! I will add you to my daily reads. I’m a momma of a darling {but recently testing} almost 3 year old boy. I love your writing style and found myself laughing out loud. Hope we can become friends.
Okay so I am the kind of person that find you through some random link on Google images and then reads your whole series because there is a kind of healing that comes through knowing you are not alone. Just had miscarriage number 2 only a few weeks ago and I have cried my way through all your guest blogs. It was a lot harder this time around because I had time to dream about this child. My first was an ectopic, so sudden I didn’t even know I was pregnant until the doctor was telling me that things were no good. This time we told our parents and took pre-baby belly picture (really hard to delete by the way) and I let myself think about all the wonderful things we were going to get to do. For 3 weeks I dreamed of a life that I know now God did not intend to be mine, at least not yet. At 8 weeks we went for our second ultrasound and discovered that I had miscarried right about the time we were telling our families. I know that God has been merciful to me in a lot of big ways. It could have taken several more weeks for my body to figure out what it had done, but it didn’t and I started bleeding that night. I could have had all the nasty complications that come with early miscarriage, but I didn’t. There are days when despite my best efforts I think, “Why did you let this happen to me?”, “Why have you given me this desire for children God, if you are never going to let me fulfill it.”, and “What is wrong with me that you won’t let my babies live.”. I think all those things and more, but it is usually when I thinking that way that something comes along, a song, or a verse from the bible, a passage in a book, or even a friend, and I am reminded that God is working not for my temporary happiness, but for my overall, eternal, good. I am reminded that he has not left even in the scariest, saddest, most painful moments of my life. It doesn’t mean that the pain is gone or that the grief is always less, but rather that I am free to feel those things without losing sense of the bigger picture. That I am able to remember that God is in control, even when things are going wrong. He has not created me for only grief and I know that. There is joy too when I think of meeting them (my babies) someday.
I’m lurking around insta Friday. I will be sharing pics this week. Have a great day!
Paige@The Wandering Cottage´s last blog post ..thats my bag
Hello! I saw your post on Soles Of a Mom and stoped by to check it out! Love your blog and your topics, a girl after my own heart. I have just joined the blogging world..I don’t even have my about page yet…sigh. Thank you for sharing your heart and your life!
I would like to know where the post on Soles of a Mom can be found. This sounds very interesting.
I have also just started blogging….much to learn but I am enjoying the challenge. http://www.realpositivechange.com
Hmm… I wasn’t going to comment, I admit. I wasn’t.
But then, when you said it would make. your. day. I thought, really?
And then I thought about how much I love having a comment on my blog too, so I relented. Even though I don’t really have much to say, except that I LOVE YOUR BLOG. And instagram link up is an awesome idea. I am an instagram addict. For real.
Anyway, I might just link up, if you don’t mind! :)
I’m Em, lovely to meet you.
xxxx
I just found your blog and I love it! I especially love your instagram pics link up! What a fun idea! I just love the concept of your blog. Isn’t that the story of all of us? Awesome! P.S. Your kiddos are absolutely adorable!
Katie´s last blog post ..Happy Fathers Day
Such cute pics on your Fathers Day post. Melts my heart when I see pics of the kids w/daddys! And your twins pic on your About This Blog page…ADORABLE! So glad I found your blog. Have a blessed day!
Hi there! I have been reading off and of for a while now but not sure I ever officially introduced myself =) I am a mom of 4, two little ones here in my arms and 2 running around in Heaven. Life is one big beautiful mess =) I would love to do a guest blog post, how do we go about doing this? Thank you for your raw honesty, it is so refreshing! xxoo
beautiful blog! I have one too, and obsessively lurk around others. chances are, I’ll be back!!! {great idea about Instagrams, BTW}.
Love the look of your blog, but more importantly, I love the heart of it! Thank you for you. Be well.
Just discovered you today via the Pleated Poppy’s mention of your instaFriday post, and I haven’t even had time to lurk, so I’ll just get right out here and say, “Howdy,” (Yes, I’m from Texas, and no, I never use that word in a real sentence). Loving what I’ve seen so far and definitely believing that we have kindred senses of humor. Whoop for that!
(I was serious about wanting to know where you got your pendant lights. It might be a matter of life and death).
God bless!
~Abbie
I just recently discovered your blog, and I’m hooked. I love the honesty of all your posts… Lurking around tonight! LOL! I joined your Instagrams…
Have a great weekend!
Jo-Anna
Found your blog 2 days ago and so enjoy it. Linked up with you for Insta-Friday.
Just wanted to introduce myself…so great to have found you. :)
Just discovered your blog today and will be reading from now on. Thank you for sharing your stories and for giving others a place to share theirs :)
Hi! I just found you and linked up to your InstaFriday today. I’m excited to look around more and read your posts in my Google Reader.
don’t know how i found your blog but i did and here i am…what a great idea…
I’ve been reading your blog for about a month and a half now… found you through Lisa Leonard’s (Yay for Insta-Fridays AND Lisa’s awesome jewelry:)). I started clicking around and investigating and noticed the series on Infant Loss & Miscarriage. Last year (7-8-2010) I lost a baby (and a tube) to an ectopic pregnancy and it has been the hardest thing I have EVER gone through. I really enjoyed reading all the posts (while my hubby kept looking over going, “what on earth are you STILL reading?!” one night while we were watching a movie). Since then, I’m totally a blog stalker ;) I enjoy each of your posts (I keep looking back on “Saturation”, hardly believing that anyone could say and feel EXACTLY how I do – which has also inspired me to get my hubby to come up with a family verse). Lately, I have been looking back at your room re-dos and have been l-o-v-i-n-g them (I have the same tea-pot as you and it made me giggle when I saw it…). Anyway, I hail from a t-i-n-y town in Pennsylvania. The kind of town where most people don’t even know what a blog is (which is probably a good thing, since it’s also one of those towns where everyone knows everyone, their business, and their businesses business, ugh). I have been married for 5 years to a wonderful man, and I have three children. Maddie-4, Rory-2, and Broden (would-be about 5 months by now, but is in heaven with Jesus… sniff).
Thank you, Jeannett, for your openness, raw honesty, creativity, and sense of humor! I now know that I was meant to find this blog, and I enjoy reading from a sister in Christ, who isn’t afraid to show it :) And now I am de-lurked ;)
Hello! I’ve been reading for a long time and I’m ashamed that I don’t comment enough – probably because I read posts on the way to work on the bus in google reader! Sorry! I’m reading all the way from Edinburgh in Scotland – absolutely love your blog, and though I don’t have kids yet I hope that when i do I approach motherhood in a realistic way and put into practice some of the things that I have picked up from reading your blog and particularly the message that life doesn’t always turn out the way you expect it but that’s part of the joy of it! Thank you for brightening up my work-days with your lovely posts, and I wish you and yours all the very best now and in the future (and now I am officially de-lurked I promise to comment again soon!) xx
Hi, I was just introduced to your blog through Lisa Leonard who did instagram Friday. This week I am joining the fun! I’m excited. :-) I am a nanny to twins and a baby and often write about them, I’m also a newly married since April so my husband makes often appearances ’cause I like that guy. My dad has Parkinson’s disease and it has shook me to the core, often times you will find me throw a post in about “Roy” and how Parkinson’s has affected our family.
Last but not least, I am 35 and just married (like I said) and all I have ever wanted to be was a wife and mommy. My dreams that I had almost given up on are just starting to be a reality. I only pray that in the year(s) to come that I get to be a mommy as well as a wife.
Until then, I’m loving on these three children that I have been brought I to their lives and enjoying every smile, diaper and temper tantrum along the way. :-)
Your blog is beautiful.
:-) jessica dukes.
Love this blog, love your story. THANK YOU for sharing!
I admit – I am lurking because I am going to Blog Sugar and looking forward to meeting you! :)
Busted! Brought over via mommy matters. I’m lurking around instafriday. WIll join one of these fridays. An instagram fanatic myself. WIll definitely keep coming back for more :)
Hi, ummm nice to meet you! Great blog! I really enjoy it!
I found your blog through The Pleated Poppy blog by means of insta friday and I think you are awesome.
Short, sweet, to the point, FREE-exactly as inrfaomtion should be!
Good morning. I’m not really sure how I came upon your blog this morning, but I did and I’m grateful. I’m excited about what you’re doing to connect women. I’m looking forward to reading in the weeks to come!! I started blogging a year and a half ago and had no idea this whole world existed! I love Jesus, my 3 littles and my super cute husband. I live in Southern California and am so grateful that I get to live in such a beautiful place that daily points me to God and His amazing creation. Nice to meet you!
Good evening. Just found your place for the first time this rainy Friday evening. I am a nurse and a photographer at heart. My blog is my outlet from the daily world. I hope to find more friends here and share creativity and life stories. Thank you.
Hi, I stumble your blog through one of the blogger I followed. And I can’t help but be one of your lurker. I enjoyed reading your blog and love all your photos! You are a funny, natural writer. True story.
I can’t wait to join your instaFriday. I’m linking you up in my blog, hope you can follow me via google.
xo,
jeands (http://www.jeandslq.blogspot.com)
great blog!
Smashing blog! I will be back. Thanks for having me and keep up the good work!
hellooo there. i’ve found you via ‘whatever’ and am glad i did. i eager to read into the past to get caught up. – jeny
I found your blog with the giveaway from The Twinery (which I just LOVE). Kudos to you for this wonderful, positive and uplifting space! Love your humor and sincerity. I’m going to become a frequent visitor. :)
I will totally admit I have just snooped over your blog for about the last couple of weeks. When I stumbled accross it I immediatey knew I wanted to read more so I saved you for quick reference and having been going back every so often to read more. When you have suffered an loss such as miscarriage, infant passing, adoption loss one tends to search around for ways to heal. I have 3 beautiful children, 3 here on earth and 3 in heaven whom I am excited to meet one day. Thank you for creating this and giving many women a chance to talk and to bond with others going through similar or have gone through similar situations. This has been amazing for me and even though it has been 15 years since I had my last miscarriaged the pain is still there and it is comforting to know I am not alone.
Hi! My name is Paige and I am married and the proud mom to 7 year old twin girlies, a very funny 4 year old boy and our newest addition Lucy, she was born 13 weeks early only weighing 1pound 8 ounces. She spent 88 days in the Nicu but has now been home for 4 months. Oh and I forgot to mention that 2 weeks before Lucy was born my mom passed away after battleing cancer for only 2 months. The same week I buried my mom I gave birth to our tiny miracle. Life with Lucy has so far been unpredictable but it is so beautiful. Have I depressed you enough yet? Here’s a little pick you up, i am obsessed with chocolate, pictures, the beach and of course my children. I am incredibly sarcastic and love people who don’t take life to seriously.
Not quite sure how I came across your blog but I am in <3! I am a Bible~thumper, wife, momma of 4, and recent new blogger. Can't wait to get to know you all better!
Hi my name is Kim, I am from Oklahoma. I came across your blog from the Pleated Poppy and joined in instafriday last week. Im so glad to have found your blog, you are very inspiring! It is great to find blogs that are brining Glory to God!
I have no idea where I found your blog for the first time, but joined on FB because of the Twinery giveaway ;-) I admit I am a lurker big time. I don’t have a blog of my own but have many favorite inspiring blogs that I read….now you have inspired me to comment more!
My home is New Brunswick, Canada and I am a Nanny to 5 precious grandkids. In October we are flying to San Diego to celebrate our 35th anniversary and we are very excited! We’ve not been far away from home before, so this will be a dream vacation.
I was totally inspired by your both at the Queen Bee Market…my heart is ministry and I appreciate so much what you did for the Food Bank!!! God Bless you! kathy
I’ve been lurking…and now I’m introducing. I really enjoy reading your blog…for the inspiration, encouragement, and HOPE that the stories and actions here bring. I am a mamma to two beautiful girls – a three year old and a 10 month old. Our younger daughter was born with neuroblastoma (NB) – a form of childhood cancer. She has had surgery to remove the tumor that was growing in her chest, and while our road on the NB journey will be a continuous one, she is doing wonderfully today! HE knit us together!
Finally de-lurking! I realized just now (after seeing your picture on the blog sugar page) that you were the super sweet gal that I talked to a couple times at the qbm! Thanks for being so kind! And thanks for the inspiring blogging!
Hello :) I came across your blog through another blogger’s instafriday :) I’m going to jump on the bandwagon you created. You have a beautiful family!
I absolutely love this idea. I love getting to introduce myself without having to sound like a kiss up with some random comment. “hey! will you like me? please?” That’s kinda what I feel like every time I am trying to find blog friends. So thank you for allowing me to say hi. I’m new to this blog world and I’m loving it. As a Christian SAHM of three I need this outlet to meet new friends and have some me time in the evening. I’m really glad I found your blog through comments of someone who is advertising with me on JustLovelyThings. I will be starting a InstaFriday and linking with you and others! I’m so excited!
Nice to meet you!
Melissa
Jeanette –
So very inspiring. So full of love. Love your blog.
I have been reading Lisa Leonard’s for two years now and she brought me to you. I just spent a few moment reading some of your story.
You are so right, each of us has a story, a struggle and pain. I think God has every intention of us sharing the trials that have made us more Christ-like. Learning to be more transparent has taught me that there are so many women that NEED to hear my story. As I have shared with women in my bible study and at our church, the work of God that I have seen unfolding takes my breath away. God is in control, He was then, He is now and always will be.
Much like others I do have a story too, but I am not ready to share it in this type of forum. . Not yet… God is still working me through some things.
Thank you for the encouragement.
HI!!! I just found you through the Simple Mom post you did. I LOVED it! {the one on VA’s} Anyway, I immediately had to come over and check out your site :) I’m Michelle – former elementary school teacher – wife to an Air Force guy – just moved to the UK – and learning to adjust to SAHM life. :) I started a blog, like you, to keep our family up-to-date since we lived so far away – but then I became a SAHM and things changed. ha ha. I never knew what a new world there was out there! So many wonderful women who have great things to say! Anyway, I’m so very glad I have “met” you. :) Can’t wait to start stalking – eerrr – reading :)
Cheers!!!
Found you through Simple Mom, which I found when I bought a book called “Organized Simplicity” in a last-ditch effort to try to figure out how to live deliberately, as a Mom of 3 under the age of 6, ER nurse, wife and extremely disorganized person! I recently started a blog myself as a way to document our lives for our family and for ourselves since I’m never going to get it together enough to make a scrapbook or photo album. Like many busy Moms, I read a lot of blogs (as a guilty pleasure and as a reminder that I’m NOT the only one!) but I don’t always post comments, simply because computer time is hard to come by when someone is hanging on you asking for a snack! So- -thank you so much for sharing, for your honesty and for inspiring me as a new blogger. I am looking forward to a little catching up and reading some or your archives…. Love the de-lurking idea!
Hi! I found my way over here from cuppa kim’s blog. I will definitely be a regular here. My husband and I have been married for 5 years, and right after we got married 5 years ago, I was diagnosed with crohn’s disease. Currently, my husband has chronic migraines and can only work 1-2 days a week, and I am on long-term disability. I am going through a very hard week on a liquid-only diet, and found the posts on here very encouraging. Hope to be able to meet other neat people on here! God is good through all of the tough times!
I just found you through an insta-friday post and commented there that I love that idea! I hope to join in! I am just back to blogging after the summer off and am trying to get the juices flowing–cause writing is good for me and I think God wants me to do it.
I just read your story and I love the concept that your life is rearranged. Beautiful image. I have a story too–don’t we all??? My story has it’s hard too. However, I have learned that God does redeem the hard and the bad, and uses it for his Good. That is why my blog is called theGoodlife. He doesn’t just get us through–He can use the evil and pain and make it Good. Thankful to have found you.
Thanks for popping by and saying hello! I wanted to find a place to say “hi” too. Love the de-lurking idea! Don’t we all wonder who is visiting our space. Well, I’m here to say, I have recently found yours and think it’s wonderful.
I just found insta-gram a couple of weeks ago and have so enjoyed participating in your insta-Friday! I loved your comment about how we have so many other days of the week to worry about ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. Sometimes it’s so refreshing to just have a few shots from your phone. We all need a reminder to step out from behind the lens once in awhile – a reminder, that is, beside kids yelling “no more pictures, Mom!”
Will be back often….
ahhhhh – a whole blank canvas JUST for delurking?!?!? Love it.
I am reading through a few other de-lurkers’ comments and feeling like I just want us all to meet in one big room somewhere and just hug and cry and tell all of our stories.
What a great gathering place this is for like-minded mommas!
Obviously – I also identified with something as I was reading your posts, and your guest posters, and loved the concept of the Insta-Friday (hoping to link up for the first time this week!) So now I have officially de-lurked, and will try to be a regular commenter. (and i just might have to steal this idea for myself! I have MANY blog lurkers! sneaky little buggers…)
thank you for so openly sharing of yourself. You are a beautiful person and I look forward to getting to know you more on this crazy journey we call life.
Linked over from the Pleated Poppy via InstaFriday. Cute idea, may join in soon.
I love your Bio piece about “my little bit…your little bit…one big thing…” That’s totally it, isn’t it!? Succinct wisdom, just.like.that.
Just a quick hello and a Happy Friday to you! And keep on spreading the good ju ju!
HI!!! luv the instagram idea!!! I have to admit I was already addicted!!!
Thank you for hosting it too!!!
God is fatihful to each of our journey’s…..mine started 4 1/2 years ago when our 11th blessing Joel at age 3, a twin of Josiah was dx with a rare childhood cancer and his battle was very short and went to live with Jesus 1/23/07. Its true Ps 71……I hope continually, each day of the “day” I will see him again!!!
Cindy