What's In a Name???

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I am a planner. It was recently brought to my attention that I can't even get out of bed unless I have a plan for what I am going to do that day. Since that comment I have come to realize just how true that is. I have been wanting to start a blog for about 6 months. Therefore, I have been planning it for that same amount of time.

The name for my blog has been the hardest to come up with. I thought of every aspect of my life and tried to come up with something that would describe me and my girls. I thought of every "mommy" and "single mom" title you can imagine but nothing stuck. Oddly enough, my planning is the reason for the name and the name is the reason for the planning.

My family and friends all know the history of my life over the last 6 years. This post would be endless if I told the whole story so here is the run down. My daddy died in a car wreck in 2004 when I was 8 months pregnant with my first daughter. Two years later my momma went to be with him. Apparently something big happens to me every two years because in 2008 I found myself divorced and a single mother to my 2 beautiful daughters.

I told you all of that to show you this... Life is HARD! You are going to be knocked down over and over again. It is up to you how you deal with those things. You can lay on the floor and hope that somebody will come by and pick you up or you can pick yourself up, dust yourself off and make a plan to turn that experience into something positive. That is where my planning "disorder" came from :)

I don't know how to add a music player yet so instead here are my favorite lines from the song "Stand Back Up" by Sugarland.

"I've weathered all these storms

but I just turn it into wind so I can fly.

If what don't kill us makes us stronger,

when I take my last breath that's when I'll just give up."

So you see, "Turn It Into Wind" isn't just the name of my blog, it's my personal motto.