Introduction

My name is Kimberly, I am a 34 year old mother of 2.  I have a beautiful, strong-willed and caring 6 year old girl and a tender-hearted, all boy 3 year old.  I am married to my best friend whom I have been with for 15 years and married 13 this year.  I love my family both immediate and extended beyond words, I love my friends like they are family and I wear my heart on my sleeve.  We live in a small town of which neither of us grew up in and are slowly starting to feel a little more at home here, which is a HUGE benefit for me as I am a very social person and need activity and interaction with others.
So, why a blog?  Well, I used to keep a diary.  It was therapy for me and for the last couple of years I have started to feel that I need that therapy again.  I need to get my thoughts down and share even if no one else reads this.  It is kind of like typing an angry email - you don't actually need to send it and have that person read it to feel better...it is therapeutic to just type it down and then erase it.  Just the very act of typing a little harder on your keypad allows for some of that anger to escape your body.
Ok, so that is why the blog, now what is the blog going to be about....hmmm...well I will tell you, I write how I talk and I can talk a lot.  There will be short posts and long posts, random posts and though provoking posts, personal posts and funny posts.  I hope this is how it goes anyway but the main purpose of this blog is to find out what it actually means to be healthy, wealthy & wise.  Does being healthy mean that I have to fit into my size 4 jeans again or does it just mean that I can run around the park with my children without getting tired in the first 5 minutes?  Does wealthy mean to be able to buy my children anything they want and live in the biggest house on the block or does true wealth mean living within your means, appreciating the things  you do have to work for in life but not necessarily the material things...wealthy in love and marriage and family and friends with a little money left over for a random night out and some dream vacations down the road and always a well stocked wine cabinet :)  And wise....what in the world does it mean to be wise?  Is it the moment you realize that your mom and dad were right all along or when you finally realize for the first time in  your life that you really do matter.  You don't have to live for what everyone else thinks you should do...crazy concept, I know.
So I am working on all of these things...trying to build the best life for myself and my family.  Trying to become healthier - there will be a lot of posts of me struggling and hopefully succeeding and finally losing the 100 plus lbs I have put on since high school.  I will post about my struggles trying to find my true passion in life weather it be trying to find a way to be a stay at home mom or finding a different job to give me more flexibility or maybe finding the courage enough to really focus on my photography.  And wise....everyone has their own beliefs and I respect anything that doesn't counter act with helping the earth and others.  I am a Christian and the older I get I am constantly reminded that I need God more and more to center me for my week ahead or day ahead.  I am trying to be
"green", trying to expose my children nature as much as possible and really focus on the simple things in life.
So there I am.  It is random, it is a lot but It is me.  Thank you for reading.