How it all began

So I figure I'll start off by telling you a little bit about myself. I am first and foremost a follower and believer in Jesus Christ. I am a wife and a mother to four boys. Two of them I gave birth to and the other two I gained when I married their dad. I have been married for 6 years now to my best friend and life is pretty dang good. I started my career as a special education teacher 12 years ago because two of my boys are on the autism spectrum. I am now a preschool teacher and I absolutely love it.When I started this blog on another sight 7 years ago my life was in a very different place. I was about to end a very destructive relationship with my two bio kids' dad. I didn't know that at the time. I thought he had taken an awesome job in another state and I was going to finish out my year of teaching and move. I had come home from a ballgame for my youngest son and I was feeling very frustrated. He is on the high end of the autism spectrum and I had a conversation with another parent that left me feeling very alone. She made the comparison between my son and her daughter. "At least he can talk and is in classes with his peers" As if this made my struggle any less! This wasn't the first time I had heard this and I was so sick of it. I felt stuck, caught between 2 worlds. We didn't fit into normal life (whatever that is) but we didn't quite fit into the world of special needs. I just needed a voice so I started a blog. Not even a week later my now ex called and very abruptly ended things. I was devastated and lost. I still wrote some but I lost my password and just lost track of the blog. My world as I had known it for 17 years had ended. I had no idea what I was going to do. Well as I'm sure you have guessed by my introduction things did get better. Now caught in between worlds has so much more meaning and I am in a much better place because of that devastating night where I thought my life had ended. It had in fact just begun. So today I am a believer, wife, mother, bonus mom and a teacher. I am so excited to tell you my story and I hope you will be too.