Fresh Start

I love fresh starts and new beginnings. They always are a great maker of a new chapter in my life. The usual suspects are: birthdays, anniversaries, a new year. This past summer has marked many fresh starts in my life. My family has moved to a new house, a new city, and a new church. It has been an exciting time filled with excitement and good stress. I decided with this move that some things in my life would be different. It would be a great time to work on things that I just felt overwhelmed with in our old place. For example, being more organized. Now I haven't done this as much as I want but I feel like my life is less cluttered and that brings a peace. This fresh start was much needed in my life. The past few years have been hard and stressful for several reasons, but here it's all new. It is so wonderful to be in this new place. I have a bit of wander lust in me anyway, so I am always up for a new adventure to new places. This has been a grand adventure for sure.

This blog is a fresh start as well. I had another blog that I haven't written on in a while, so I wanted to start fresh on a clean slate. What's up with the blog title you may ask. Well, I had thoughts of titles with nice sentiments that were even wistful at times, but I landed on this one. It is unique to me. Other titles with journeys, paths, and stuff like that can be had by lots of people. I want this blog to be able to be about all aspects of my life not just my kids and family. Certainly this will be a big part of the blog, but I want to have room to just write about whatever.

People call me a lot of things in my life (wife, mommy, Bill's wife, things like that), but other than my actual name, Hetty is the one I've been called the longest. My sister started calling me Hetty many years ago. I am not even sure when it started. It is a name that I really love and cherish.

So, here is the first post on the new blog. I hope to keep up with this, but as a mom to two small children I make no promises:)

The journey begins...