Day 1 - A time for Firsts!

Welcome to my Blog.  This is my first attempt at a blog, so I expect there will be an evolution along the way.  Hopefully I can make this an interesting experience for more people than just myself, but I guess we'll find out.

I named this "Just Take a Little Time" for many reasons.  The main one being that we all sometimes need to be reminded to stop and "smell the flowers" so to speak.  We allow ourselves to get so busy in "life" that we forget to take a little time for ourselves, our families, our friends and neighbours... (you get the idea).  In taking a moment to stop and truly savour the moment, we can sometimes find some of the most precious blessings.

I am a Mom to 3 very wonderful girls.  My oldest is Hailey, she is 10 and has been a learning experience from the moment she was born.  Kaia is 5, and is enjoying Kindergarten very much; she looks up to her older sister and loves her little sister to pieces.  Anya was born in October.  We thought we might end up with 3 September babies, but she is almost a month later than the other two.  The three of them are the most precious blessings we have received.

My husband and I have been married for 15 years this spring.  Some days it feels like we've been together forever and other days I feel like we barely know each other!  It's not always been an easy and fun adventure, but I find it is important to try to take a little time to pray for our relationship everyday and I have hope that we will still be driving each other crazy for many years to come ;) .

I enjoy baking and trying new recipes.  I can't say I'm the world's best cook, and I prefer baking, but my family and I must eat, so I like to make it interesting.  I'm not into haute cuisine, I'm all about good "old-fashioned" home cooking.  I'm currently seeking out homemade recipes for some of my restaurant favorites as well as finding recipes to make more nutritious versions of my store favorites as well.

I am currently supposed to be on a mission to lose weight, eat healthy, lower my cholesterol and reduce stress.  I can't say to this point I've been really that successful at any of those things.  I thought I'd reduced my stress level finally being away from work, but considering I have a small infant at home I think I just changed the type of stress that I'm dealing with!

In creating this blog, I hope to be more accountable on this journey.  So the title "Just Take a Little Time" is meaningful to me in that I need to remember to do just that.  Take a little time each day for myself, my daughters, my husband, my friends and family, and most importantly time with my Creator.  If you are interested in joining me on this journey, I look forward to taking a little time with you as well.