A Blog is Born

Hello All!

My first blog post ever and I'm quite excited about it. Will anyone read it? I really don't know, but as I have gotten older I realized I enjoy writing. In school, I always thought I was a math person. I wanted to be like my Dad and math was one of

his strong suits, so naturally I felt that math was mine too, or at least I was going to make it one of my strengths. I was good at it and I thought I enjoyed it better than reading, but oh how the years have changed me. Now a days, with three children in tow, I find math requires too much thinking on my part...my brain can't handle the computing and the numbers. Not after hearing, "Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy" five bazillion times a day. Sad I know, but I find  my peace now a days letting my thoughts flow onto this computer screen or through my journal.

So here I am talking to myself (another unfortunate trait I've picked up being a mom). It is refreshing to me though to be able to get the jumbled mess that is in my brain out on paper.  Some days I think I might go crazy; if I could just talk to someone other than a person under the age of 6 about my thoughts. Then when I finally get the chance, nothing comes out. I'm silent, it's like my brain wants to scream out what I've been thinking all day long, but my mouth won't work properly. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that writing is much easier to me than talking, so when the idea of starting a blog ran through my mind, I thought why not. It would be perfect for me. Even if no one reads it, I can have a place to get my thoughts out...so Four Girls and a Matthew has been born!

I started thinking about what exactly I wanted this to blog to be about and to represent, so as a natural planner and list maker here goes:

This blog will be a place for me to share with you:

• my faith
• my family adventures
• my struggles
• my lessons learned
• my goals
• my day to day craziness

Bear with me if you decide to follow along. I am somewhat tech savvy, but this is a new adventure so it's inevitable there will be kinks that I will have to work out. I hope if you do read this, you will know that we are all in this life together as God's children and I want to be here to build up one another and reassure one another that we don't have to do it alone.

With love,

Tori