If you know who I am....

My name is Leigh Ann. My first or "real" name is Leigh. I go by both. I am married to the love of my life Conrad, and we have been together a total of 6 years (going on 7 this October), and married for 4 years. We are high-school sweet hearts. We have an amazing energetic 2 and a half year old son named Edison, who will be 3 in September. Those of you who know me know that I long so badly to have another baby but the timing right now, with me in school, is just not right. My schooling got put on hold when Edison was born. That will most likely happen if we were to have another one right now. I work for Starbucks as a barista( have been there for 4 years)I am a full time wife and momma, as well as attending college full time. I have no life outside of this. This blog is my little bit of a get away from all of life's crazy shenanigans it decides to throw at me on a daily basis. Safe to say that by the end of the week, I am fried, edgy, and want to get away from everything. Some might say I actually hold my sanity together very well. What they don't know, is that inside, I am screaming at the top of my lungs. I do hold myself together well, my only escape from all of it, is to write. So here I am.

Now that you know a little blip about me, I will tell you how life has been going for me these last few months. I work anywhere from 14-20 hours a week, Sunday,Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Tuesday and Thursday's are my school days. Saturday is Church. It's like a never ending cycle of busy. Edison goes to daycare Tuesday and Thursday which helps me stay focused in school ( I am taking both online and in class) and somewhere with in all that, I try to find time to tend to the house and spend time with my family.

At the beginning of going back to college; after being off for over a year, I planned out my "Academic plan for success" which is basically my map of where I am going to be going the next so many semesters up until graduation. The plan was to be finished by Summer 2014. Just recently I found out that I have 3 additional classes I am to take in order to transfer to METRO State. This pushes my graduation a semester off. That is a semester I could have been at Metro. This was not part of my plans. I wanted to be graduated and done with school by 2016. Now it is looking like it could be later. That means my plans for having another baby, are being pushed even more off. That means my plans of being a teacher is being pushed more off. I don't like it when my plans change. Why are they changing God??

Then I realized, this is out of my control. I am struggling to try and take control of something that I physically cannot. The song that has been helping me get back to reality is by Sidewalk Prophets called "Help me find it" It has some amazing lyrics that is exactly where I am right now. I encourage you to check it out. It is an absolutely beautiful cry out to God. After all, he is the only one who sees where I am heading towards, why not trust him to lead me to that destination?

Until next time!

          Leigh
>*Japanese Mamma*<