Welcome Back Blog

Do what you love and do it often....this is a quote I believe with my whole heart...but some how a forgot this for a moment...with my blog. I love blogging...for me it is like a therapy....it's a way to really step back and look at my life..and perspective is always good. It is a way to relive the immense happiness my family and friends give me...and a way to remember the sad times too. Because the dark times make the light so much more warm. I just got caught up in life....busy, crazy life...and I didn't make time for my blog and oh how I have missed it.So I have a lot of ground to make up...but I can't wait to catch up...if only I could feel this way about working out and laundry....(deep sigh).

life as it is

I am happy. I have a beautiful life. My children fill my soul with a love that I can't even begin to put into words. But my beautiful life is not always full of just beauty. It's the good and the bad..the light and the dark that allows the beauty of my life to shine. It's been brought to my attention that my pictures on this blog are not always "the best" of me. Why would I put a picture of me on the blog that shows me red faced and sweaty after a workout...or with no make up on...or better yet of me crying? Well, it's because this is my life. In the busy swirl of my life there are times when I get lost in the shuffle and the day begins and ends without make up. There are days and times when trying to take time to be pretty just doesn't happen.  This is our blog...our life...and I cry and sweat and struggle at times like we all do. But I also laugh and giggle and play and love with intense passion. I want our blog to be a glimpse of our life as it is...the good, the beautiful and yes.... even the ugly.   I just have to have faith that beauty lies within our hearts...our Hardy hearts. Thanks for enjoying our journey with us.

This blog

I had no idea when I started this blog how much I would love it and how much it wold mean to me..but I love preserving these memories in this life I live.  I never considered how much it wold mean to Jeremy either...every once in a while he will sit and read it...he has to be in just the right mood and it is always at night and it always makes him cry. The other surprise was how much Riggs loves it. He loves to read the happenings of our life and how I feel about them. He loves to see how proud I am of him..and his brothers and sisters. I will be in the kitchen and hear the computer playing the music from the blog and I know Riggs is checking it out...it makes my heart happy!