Here It Is...

Well... here it is. John and I have decided to start a blog. I know, it seems as though everyone we know has a blog. We decided to start our own for several reasons:
       1. We are luckily getting to know many beautiful and wonderful people. Many of these people are far away, so what better way to keep all those we love in the loop than through a blog?
       2.  John and I have found we know little and need to learn much! I suppose being a couple of our age it comes with the territory. I mean he is in his first year of being a pastor and I am only in my second year as a Speech Language Pathologist. There is so much we don’t know and are constantly learning about: life, marriage, finances, someday children, ministry, careers, even friendship. We figure it’s best to put it somewhere so maybe we can look back and remind ourselves when we inevitably forget.
       3. We think we are kinda different. Why not share and hope we meet more like us?

      4. I hear writing a blog is therapeutic...well it looks like it. The friends I have who write blogs and the blogs I read seem to have an air about them that says “this feels good!”

This blog will be a shared effort, which means sometimes John will post and sometimes I will post. We (and by "we" I really mean we, okay I think I suggested it and he liked it) chose the name "Our Shoe Closet". We wear many shoes everyday. For example on any given day I wear my speech language pathologist shoes, sister shoes, pastor's wife shoes, friend shoes, shopping shoes, crafting shoes, etc. John will quite often wear his Pastor shoes, husband shoes, grandson shoes, friend shoes, hobby seeking shoes, traveling shoes, board game lover shoes etc. We also have plain John and Ashley shoes. When we stood back and took a look in our “closet” we realized it was quite a collection; one we hope to add to in the future. I admit it is kinda cheesy, but I think it is cute. You have to admit it is super catchy.

We hope that through this handy blog we will be able to better explain and keep loved ones in the loop in our day-to-day lives. We are not really into making big important and personal status updates on Facebook. I don't enjoy sharing the personal stuff in that small box, knowing it just pops up on the informative news feed. It just seems strange. Generally John and I keep our Facebook stuff pretty mundane. I don't know how personal the blog will get, but hopefully it will shed some light on our comings and goings. Check in with us often to get all the news on the ups and downs and adventures of our life.

-Hers