...20?!?

Soooo I’m turning 20 in about two months. For me, that feels like a way bigger milestone than 18 or 21. It’s an entirely new decade.  In my mind, you get a job, a house, a husband, and babies in your twenties… how in the world am I almost 20?!

I have been intrigued by blogging for a while, and I am just now getting around to trying it out.  I guess for my generation its kind of like a journal…something I’de like to look back on years down the road and smile at my younger self. A handwritten journal would probably be more nostalgic and sincere, but realistically, grocery lists and birthday cards are about the only things I handwrite anymore. 

The main reason I thought I’de get this thing going is my amazing family that I love with all my heart. Just about all of my immediate and extended family (except for an awesome aunt and precious cousins in Dothan, Alabama!) live within a 50 mile radius of my hometown. That being said, I get to see them a lot and I am so grateful for it. I can’t imagine having cousins I’ve never met or grandparents I see a couple times a year. I am so thankful for the close, loving relationships I have with my extended family and I can attribute a lot of who I am today to them. 

I don’t really expect people besides my family and close friends to read this thing and I don’t understand why people put deep, emotional, personal stuff on the Internet for the world to see…so there will be none of that here. There’s just going to be some thoughts, highlights, and pictures from my simple little life of loving family, friends, and God!

with love, 

Amanda