Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The Beginning

I've been thinking of starting a blog for over two years now. Up until today, the title was as far as I'd gotten. I kept thinking that I needed an angle, or a specific focus. Would it be a blog about homeschooling? Maybe our family life? Our spiritual journey as a family? Natural health? Gardening? Whatever topic of interest caught my fancy that day?

The problem is, I'm used to reading blogs by 'experts'. People who have their stuff figured out. Who have it together. I have an interest in many things, but I wouldn't consider myself an expert in any of them. My training as a biologist has left me with an almost compulsive need to research EVERYTHING. The list of information copied, pasted, and saved to my hard drive is so eclectic, it's almost embarrassing. How in the world could I ever find a single focus for a blog? And so I didn't.

Then I got to thinking about the title I'd chosen. Beautiful Chaotic. True to my research addiction claim, I looked up synonyms for the word "chaotic". These included disordered, disorganized, riotous, every which way, tumultuous, and my personal favorite, deranged. I realized that having one specific focus would be rather untrue to my title, and rather untrue to my life.

So this blog will contain all topics mentioned above, and whatever else strikes my fancy. It will be a chronicle of our homeschooling adventure; living a life of faith both as a family and as an individual; my search to find natural ways to deal with the migraines I've battled for 11 years now; our beginning attempts as a family to be healthy and fit; my desire to have a green thumb in a small yard; my near addiction to Sephora and all things make up; my sons ridiculous Lego building skills; my daughters love of all things girly and pretty; my husbands mad classical guitar skills; life with a 150 lb mastiff and a crotchety old mutt; or pretty much any of a number of things that make up the varied and amusing interests of my family. Hopefully sharing will allow me a means of accountability and focus, and perhaps amusement for those reading!



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