When people ask what do you do, I say, I Mom a lot. Then if they ask if I work outside the home I answer no, I work in it and then I add, I’m a writer or I’m a blogger. (Then other times I confuse them with, I’m a wrogger because blogger + writer = wrogger.) I wonder sometimes if these answers count, even though I know that it all counts, and that’s why I tell stories here.
Before I was a mother, I worked in social work, providing services for people struggling with mental illness. Sometimes I miss that, but most of the time I love that I stay at home with my boys and write from my office/den/guest room. I’m on a bumpy road to recovery from addiction and I write about it here, hopefully not all the time because I am so much more than it. Recovery is what’s going on with me, so I tell its story here, while I tell other stories alongside it.
I’m forever grateful for the support and love I’ve found in this space. Did you know that I most likely would not be sober without the stories that were being told right here online? If courageous women had not admitted their struggle, I wouldn’t have seen myself in their story and decided to get help. I love it when the worldwide web is used for good.
When I have the energy, I’m one of those people who looks at life as a daring adventure, dreaming up all kinds of things to do and be right here in the ordinary. My adventure includes one husband, two small boys, ages 5 and 3, a baby girl on the way (due in June), a dog and the minivan I never thought I would have.
This blog and my life revolve around several themes, like my faith, motherhood, depression, addiction, our family’s journey with Asher’s hydrocephalus, and finding my way to a fully alive existence.
Blogging reminded me that I love to write. And then it somehow moved me to write about all of life – the good, the bad, and all that is in the extraordinary in-between.
And now that I’ve made it clear numerous times why this blog is titled The Extraordinary Ordinary, I will stop.
Thank you for visiting me.
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I am so glad you stopped by our Table, because I love the mojo at yours!! You're beautiful and the way you transparently tell your story, well, it's refreshing and real. I like that! Thanks for your kind words today! They made me smile!
~kristin
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I am not a mom, I am not in recovery, and I haven't quite figured out how I feel about my faith… but your blog is absolutely, positively inspiring to me. I too choose to look at life as a daring adventure and in some odd way, it's comforting to know that it always can be, even with the road bumps along the way. Thank you for your writing, I especially love the well, hello there :).
Great blog and congrats on your award. As a past MN resident I am following your blog. Hope your enjoying the holidays!
I love your blog. Just wanted to tell you that. Perused here while I had a break working my night shift last night, and just love it here. Thanks for your gift of hope and words! Blessings for 2010.
Ok- I am flat out giddy I found your blog. What I have read so far is such great writing and so inspiring. I feel envious to be honest, but I'm fighting that little beasty. We have so much in common and I find I am admiring you and I don't feel so terrible and ashamed that I drank at the same time I have a child I love so fiercely.
Not to push my blog on you and thanks for reading my last post, but this post I wrote months ago is on being ordinary. I won't send another. I know you must be busy with so many followers. Just that I think Ordinary ROCKS!
http://writingmywaysober.blogspot.com/2010/11/robert-downey-jr-club-of-sober-ordinary.html
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