About Me

The Spooner Clan '14

Meet my clan. I have 5 beautiful children, born in 7 years. My husband, Jonathan, is a police officer and therefore has a busy and demanding work schedule, leaving me alone half the time and the other half showing up just when I need it the most. My life is NEVER predictable. With this many kids and a hubby on shifts, we have no routine, no schedule, no regularity other than bedtime.

I stay at home and try to manage the home, homeschool the kids, cook regular meals, and run my home based business. I sew custom embroidered blankets and almost always have an order (or 10) on the back burner that I steadily plug away at during my evenings. On top of all this, I have 5 siblings that I am very close with, in laws that I am close with, a church I'm involved with, extracurricular activities, and throw a little Young Living in there, that pretty much sums it up.

I. Am. Busy.

Half of you are judging me whilst the other half has their mouths hanging open in horror. Maybe a few bemused individuals are chuckling in understanding (email me, we need to talk). So let me expound on our situation.

I love being busy. I hate being busy. I go crazy when I am doing nothing, so I commit to 5 different things on a  whim, then I have major "commitment remorse" and spend the next 8 months promising myself I won't do that again. (I have yet to learn from this continuous cycle in my life). This year I let the older kids choose one thing, and that was it. And yet somehow just with the regular activities of life we have surpassed all hopes of quiet uneventful weeks at home.

And yet, I am ridiculously happy. God is constantly teaching me about my limits and I learn with each passing year of craziness to depend on Him more. The reality is this: I am not enough. I don't cut it without His strength to see me through. So I am learning. I don't have it all together. I make more mistakes than I can count. But I refuse to spend these days focusing on how overwhelming it is instead of enjoying these incredible gifts God has given me; and trusting that He will give me the strength I need to face each day.

So, I have no idea what I will be writing about. Some days about something new and fresh that God is speaking into my life, other days I'll be venting my utter exhaustion and frustration, sometimes it will be funny, sometimes plain depressing. But along the way I hope you see a small glimpse into the treasure that is my family. And more than that, I hope that God is evident in my messy chaos, because without Him, none of this would be possible.