Living Life as a Preacher's Wife

     I never knew Atlanta, Texas existed before we moved here. When Jacob first told me about it I said, "as in like Atlanta, Georgia??" Yes I am a Texan, born and raised (well for the majority of my life), and I am proud of it! But I have always been a city girl and always will be at heart.       When Jacob and I got married we lived in Austin in an apartment for the first year. He was finishing up his last year in school, and I found a part-time job as a Nanny for a family with 2 kids. People might think that Austin is a terrible place to live with all the traffic and the "hippies", but to be honest once we got accustomed to living there we didn't even think anything of it. Sure there was traffic, people didn't know what a blinker was, and there was some weird people, but we were close to every thing, we had a great congregation there (one at which my dad met my mom in and even got married at), lots of friends near by, and it's the capitol of Te

So I am new to this whole blog thing for the most part. I had a tumblr when I first started dating my hubby and that was pretty much only used for venting my feelings somewhere where no one I knew could read it, unless I wanted them to. Now being a new year and having a family of my own, I thought I might give a blog a try and see if it is something I would like to keep up with. Well I rang in the new year with the flu...not something I planned on doing and it was quite miserable. A few days before New Years I got the flu and was cooped up in my room for 2 1/2 days to keep J and N from catching it. It lingered for about 5 days till I felt 100% myself again and that was after a doctors visit and a shot. I am feeling much better now and was able to get out today and go to worship yesterday for the first time in over a week. Being cooped up in the room without seeing N for 2 days straight was one of the hardest things I've had to do with her. Even though she was in the same house I