Blooming...

I have been contemplating starting a blog for some time, but have hesitated because:
1. I was not really sure what I would blog about.
2. I was not really sure that when I did blog that anybody would be interested.
However, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that this blog was more for me than for anybody that might happen upon it.
As I put in the "About Me" section, I feel like I have grown up more in the last year than I have in my entire life. Let me tell you a little bit about the last year. Last year Bart and I decided that it was time to stop the Griffin/Savannah commute that he had been doing for 2 years and I was going to have to find a teaching job in the Savannah area. I turned down a job last January because we didn't feel like it was the right fit and then I didn't get any more offers for months and months and months. We were both beginning to wonder if year 3 of the commute was looming ahead of us. I continued to pray for the right job, but still had my job in Griffin in case something here didn't open up. I got a phone call on the last day of school in May with an offer for a kindergarten job here and I started to pack. I packed my school stuff, I packed up the house and I struggled every day not to think about the day when the moving trucks pulled out of the only hometown that I had ever known.
After 3 rental truckloads and countless number of carloads, I was an official resident of Chatham County in July; however, I didn't really make my presence known here. I spent as much time in Griffin as I possibly could. On one of the few days that I was in our new home, I was posting on Facebook how much I missed my family and friends and a friend posted back that I needed to, "Bloom where I was planted." The very next day, I came home from my 1st day of pre-planning at my new job and my Aunt Bonnie had sent me a beautiful bouquet of flowers with a card that read, "Bloom where you are planted." Coincidence? I don't think so! It was then that I decided that I needed to plant my roots here. While I have roots in Griffin and will always think of it as "home", I am now making and effort to nourish my roots here. My husband is here and it is here that we are making our new life.
Stay tuned....watch us as we bloom!