Every Tale has a beginning.......and here is the start of mine.....

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland

When I read my two youngest children a bed time story, they always flip to the middle of the book and want me to start there.  I'm not sure why, but that is what they insist each time. I have tried a number of times to instruct them that we must start at the beginning, work our way through the book to the ending...to complete the story as the author intended...so the tale makes sense.  But have you ever tried to reason with a four year old?  As you have probably guessed....most nights I let her win, and we begin the story somewhere in the middle.  I let her flip the pages, dictating where the story leads us.  Sometimes the story doesn't make any sense at all and other times the story, surprisingly, does.  But at the end, when I'm closing the book to put it back on the shelf, I'm always met with two sets of bright eyes and two big smiles and the words, "What a great story, Mama!"

Of course there is a beginning to my story and the tales I intend to tell on this blog.  But, just like the tales I read my girls at bed time, I must start somewhere in the middle....at least for the sake of this blog.  My hope is that this blog will become a place where I can share some of my stories....the ones I experience as the busy mama of four kids.....and the ones I create in my imagination to write down as novels.  I want to be able to share my struggles and frustrations, my joys and triumphs in my role as a busy mama....and as a first time writer trying to get traditionally published.  And, most importantly, I want to be able to recognize God's hand in it all and accept that all of it....struggles and frustrations, joys and triumphs....are all a part of His plan.  

And with that.....there will be more to come....because I haven't come to the end quite yet.