Why unfabled?

My blog title throws people off, and that is ok by me. So what does it mean? I have a vision for this blog to grow into a true Titus 2 community. I dream of it being a place for Christian women to seek wisdom from more mature women and share their own wisdom with others. For now it's just little ole me throwing stuff out to mainly my Facebook friends who are primarily real life friends who are mostly church friends with whom this relationship already exists. I plod along though and hope my bits of silliness are encouraging to someone somewhere. Our culture has a fondness for creating an image of what we should aim to be. At the moment women are supposed to be strong and brash capable of running corporations while raising a brilliant child or two who wears not only name brand clothes but designer clothes and learns to read at age 2. Thy never wear diapers and nurse until the child can pour their own glass of milk. But they do not drink milk. It has to be rice or almond or some other milk looking substance. She should be underweight and muscular and not eat two or three food groups which change with the season. The more allergies her children have the more value she has. Although being a stronger sex than men she should flaunt her sexuality like a commodity but remind us constantly that it is her body to sell after all. She answers to no one, most importantly her family. She should live for herself first and make sure she watches enough pop television to know how to find meaning in her life. { exhausted yet?} If she blogs she should be sure to post only edited, altered pictures of only her children's feet and the corner of her latests craft project. She should be sponsored by as many orange juice and paint companies as possible. Her home will be large, expensive and impeccably designed. Her children's rooms will have custom carpentry beds and built in book cases. She dresses in only polyvore planned designer outfits that she buys by stacking coupons. Her hair will be flat ironed, braided and never heat dried. Every day will be carefully organized and yet completely open to whatever the breeze may bring. Yup. I have one word for that friends, fabled. It is not about politics or religion. I know that was pretty harsh, and those were not all negative qualities, But we live in a world that writes our story for us and we need to have the courage to say "Nope. My story was written for me before the beginning of time." We DO have a guidebook. We have beauty laid before us and we do not have to drive ourselves crazy looking for it. This week was certainly less than perfect. I exploded potatoes, had a fascinating run on facebook about my deformed laundry and fixed our beheaded Woody with duct tape For every cute picture I post I guarantee you there were 20 times more ugly moments than the good. Life is messy, but oh sooo beautiful.

The Blog Unfabled

     Welcome to our new blog. It is a work in progress as I do not currently have a computer and am updating from other resources. Be patient but please be sure to click follow if you were following our old blog or if you want to be one of the first to find out what new is happening in our world.
     Why a new blog? I want to become more vocal. I have a strong desire to start sharing more on other blogs and to start responding more to conversations here in blog land, but I have been hesitant to do so with my children's name and specifics out publicly. Soon I will disable the links from this blog to my original blog, and will take us anonymous. Not because we are hiding, but because I want to share more without the fear of crazies! And there are crazies.
     So who are we and why the weird name to my blog? I am simply Meme. A mom to two little boys currently walking the planet and another who will join them in September. I currently stay at home and try to keep a clean home, make tasty dinners and help educate my kiddos. I also burn things, forget to pay bills and lose my patience. I had a friend recently tell me that she cant read blogs. She says they make her doubt herself. This friend is a great mom who loves her kids, but the reality is so many blogs put on such a pretty front. Perfect moms who handle life's tragedies with perfect grace, or moms who handmake everything without imperfection. But I know the truth. We all fail. We all struggle with something. Whether we are willing to share these things publicly or not, they are true. Our lives are not fairy tales. I would rather be honest with this new blog. I tend not to blog when I've been overrun with my house. I wait until there is a perfect picture or story or moment. How about we change the rules. What if I blog about the dishes piled in the sink, or my inability to get my two year old potty trained (and lack of interest in the process)? What if I don't care about grammar and spelling and perfection and instead share a different story. One where I tell you how yucky I am, and in turn show you how Good God Is? He makes the imperfect perfect and loves us "while we were still sinners." He loves the yucky, because he can make it pure. So that's the story this blog will share. The true story of a mom who tries, but will inevitably fail, and a great King who comes to the rescue time and time again. I hope you'll stick around. I want to hear what you think of our Life... Unfabled.