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I have composed several blog posts in my head lately and have been itching to start blogging again to get those thoughts out of my head and into written format. Otherwise my brain will become like a load of clothing tumbling around aimlessly in a dryer before it has been folded and sorted into neat and orderly piles that are due to be delivered to the appropriate household room and drawer. Because of my itch to write, I decided to take a tour of my old and juvenile posts. Boy was I in for a good chuckle.It made me think of all the little isms of being young. The lovely innocence and untamed zest for life mixed with inexperience and a sense of being invincible are only some of those isms. As it stands it has been 4 YEARS since I last wrote and so much has happened. I won't bore you with all the nitty gritty details but will give you a brief synopsis so as to set the stage of future blogs. In 2008-2009 I joined a traveling performing arts team with the goal of learning about and sharing the love of Jesus to audiences both young and old. I believe I received said love far more than I shared which is typical for short term missions. In the nine months I was on team I learned to live in community with 8 other girls and 4 boys. We traveled to the Canadian West Coast as well as the prairies and then took our talents to Rwanda and England. My soul found a home with the people I met in Rwanda and I also found my voice during this time. Some of my most precious and impacting and healing moments can be found in that season. In 2009-2010 I developed my skills in the "Technology of Fashion" which included the design and construction process of creating clothing. God then gifted me with the start of a romance with the man I would later marry- Jesse. After graduating the design program (which I took as an adult at a high-school/trade-school in Winnipeg) I began to look for work. God gifted me with a job at the prestigious Royal Winnipeg Ballet as a humble sewer in the Wardrobe Department. Shortly after that the CF moved Jesse to Fredericton, New Brunswick and our baby relationship graduated to a whole new level as we began the 'long distance' season. Throughout these years I was leading music at my church and also volunteering with the youth program that my church offered. Also somewhere in that season I started to perform my own compositions (songs) at open mics and other small venues. This was one of the most busy seasons of my life. Thanksgiving weekend of 2011 my circumstances changed dramatically when I happily married the love of my life and the next day moved to Alliston, Ontario, up-rooting myself from everyone, and everything I had known to start this new chapter with him. 5 months later, after meeting some lovely people we moved to the other end of the country-landing in our current home- Victoria, BC. We have been living here now for 3 years. In our Victoria chapter so far I have worked at a 'hole-in-the-wall' type coffee shop/grocery store, started and executed a business in designing and selling women's clothes at markets and the most exciting thing that has happened is that I had a baby! Most of my blog posts from here on in will be heavily influenced by this new and life-changing experience called motherhood. Consider yourselves warned. :)