Welcome

Here it is, my very first blog post. I'm going to try and make this short and sweet. I've been wanting to start a blog for a while now. A place to share whats going on in my life in one place. My biggest hurdle so far has been coming up with a blog name. I wanted a name that reflected me and my life but was also not a run of the mill kinda name. For months now I have been racking my brain and searching for availabilty. I was getting frustrated that everything I came up with until now was already taken. Then one day a couple weeks ago it came to me, Life in the Ordinary. It may seem strange to some but let me give a little explanation to its inspiration.

We recently had been going through a sermon series at church on ecclesiastes. Through this I was encouraged and inspired to live the life I ACTUALLY have, not the imaginary one of the future that hasn't happened yet (or maybe never will!) For anyone who doesn't know I am a stay at home, homeschooling mama of three young kids, I care for my grandmother who lives with us, I am a part time nutrition and fitness coach and a slew of other responsibilities. In other words I am a CEO of a very busy house with endless things to do. From time to time I am overwhelmed and struggle with "just" being at home, with "just" being a mom and the mundane tasks of running a home and caring for children. I struggle with feeling well, ordinary. Then in this sermon the words hit me "life happens in the ordinary, in the mundane, in the everyday." Yes we will have a few extrordinary moments in our life and those can be celebrated, but where life actually happens is in between the extrodinary moments - in the ordinary.

My hope for this blog is to share my life and all of its many ordinary (and maybe a few extrordinary) moments. My hope is to inspire, encourage and support others in any way possible. Whether that is fitness, family, spiritually related or anything in between. So there you have it, my short but sweet first blog post. Until next time <3

Natalie