Hello.

Hello Friends.

So I know I had another blog. You can check it out here.

But for some crazy reason I forgot the password and for some even CRAZIER reason I forgot the sign in name. I guess it had been THAT long. And so I put off creating a new blog because I thought it seemed so silly.

So here I am. Sitting at my desk. Three kids just all fell asleep. And the wrapper of a girl scout cookie sleeve. Empty. Sits in front of my keyboard. Not sure how that got there? (wink*)

Anyways, you either knew about my other blog or you didn't. But no matter what I've had a lot on my mind lately and I've really been meaning to start back up with the whole blogging thing, and apparently life happens.

So. Here I am.

 So I suppose I should get going on saying what I wanted to say right?

I'm going to start with saying Thanks for stopping by. We have a basement that is finally getting to actually being finished. My husband should get a standing ovation for where it's at. It's taken almost two years, and he basically has done it all himself. (Thank you Matt & Garett for helping, I know you helped him do certain things) The inspection with the electrical passed, Yay! And we actually have two rooms completely primed & painted. Yay! (they still need trim and doors, but really at this point, who needs those, ha!)

So I'll be blogging a bit on that.

I also am a mom of three crazy littles. And would love to be an encouragement to other moms. Because, come on, we all need each other. And I know I've been super encouraged by other moms. And we all need to get out of the mom wars business and just be real. Right?

And it's Spring Cleaning time! I mean really is Spring ever gonna come in New England. It really may be Summer by the time the last of the snow is gone. But no matter what I've got the spring decorations up, and the crocuses are popping up in my front gardens. The same gardens that I had to shovel over a foot of snow last week to clean just so I could find my crocuses. Because I love to decorate our HOME I may blog on the fun I have decorating.

 And of course I'll be blogging things on my heart. Nothing crazy, just it could be super random.

 So with that said, my hope is this blog will allow us to pretend we are sitting with a cup a tea...

(Isn't she cute?)

...together and chatting. Because really that's one of my happy places. And I like that I can be real with others. Meaning you!

{Enter: Our crazy amazing kids into that reality...the kids may be hanging on me, or screaming, or I may have just been spit up on, or in desperate need to escape to the bathroom, but all in all we all are moms who love our kids and want to be the best mom we can be to them.}

And Please comment if you want, and I'll try to respond. I love to see who reads this and communicate with you. Because honestly I don't do this so I can just talk to myself. I so want this to be fun.

And to quote the title of the blog, my house truly is "A Joy Full Home". Not because I'm the perfect mom and our house is always at peace. But because of Christ who reigns over it. Oh how thankful I am for his everlasting peace.

Let me first leave a verse to ponder on: ….whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

~ Philippians 4:8 ~

Thanks again for stopping by.

Melissa 

Uh oh? I guess I'll admit, I did eat three cookies, and they were DELISH! ;)