Just Amy

I’m sure a lot of my writing will in some way will evolve around motherhood. Writing from experience is the strongest. And my adult life has in large part has been my boys.

I have an English degree with a secondary education minor. But I only have a single year of teaching under my belt. I loved teaching high school English. But my heart has always longed to be a mom. And as soon as Ethan came along, I put my career and full-time work on the shelf. It was a choice. And a choice not one everyone makes or should make. I am in awe of GREAT moms who can be successful in a career and be nurturing and attentive at the same time, just as equally successful in their motherhood. Staying at home was a decision Jason and I came to before we even walked down the aisle … it just fit us as a couple.

I have three boys. All three teenagers for about another month (my oldest will be 20 in September). And being a mom of all boys has truly been an adventure.

So many things to love about being a mom. But something I have always enjoyed most is watching them. Observing how they interact with each other, with others outside of family, how they play and what they do in their free time. All the observing gives light to what they value the most and where their gifts are.

One of my biggest fears as a mom is being so busy raising them, that I miss out on SEEING them. I’m often amazed at how three human beings can grow up in the same home, have the same rules, stressing the same values, yet they are all three uniquely different. Therefore, they require tweaking in how I parent them individually.

Over the next few posts, I’ll be sharing their differences. The things that make them “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Proverbs 139:14). And some little things that I have tried to do to make them shine in their uniqueness. Their story matters.