A Year of New Beginnings
As I sit down to write this with my 5-month-old son sprawled across my lap, I can’t help but experience that overwhelming feeling of surreal-ness. This is, in fact, my life. God is so good. These past two years have been full of new beginnings and learning to trust in the Lord as I follow the path He lays.
Here’s the briefest rundown of the spiral I’ve been in for the past few years!
2023: Met my Husband, Started my Master’s Degree, Quit my Job at the Law Firm, Got Engaged & Started Planning a Wedding, Started Teaching, Started Getting Our House Move-in Ready, Witnessed my Husband Be Baptized
2024: Got Married & Got Pregnant, Decided to Quit Teaching to Stay Home, Finished my Master’s Degree, Substituted for Teachers Part-time, Helped my Husband Start his Bachelor’s Degree, Gave Birth to a Beautiful Baby Boy
2025: Started to Figure Out How to be a Mom, Found an Illustrator, Dedicated Time to Writing, Created a Website & Blog, Partnered with a Merch Company, Published a Book, Continued to Stare at my Baby All Day Every Day & Wonder How He Grows So Fast
And 2025 isn’t even half over yet!
I met my husband shortly after my 22nd birthday and less than a month later I knew he’d be the man I married, and he certainly agreed because he wasted no time proposing. Our favorite inside joke with my family is that in less than twelve months Caleb gained a wife, a cat, a dog, and a baby! We met and both our worlds were turned completely upside down in the best way.
I had very specific career goals and dreams to teach college-level English courses, and babies would come later in my 30s. I am so glad that the Lord is the author of my life instead of Adrianna. We found out we were pregnant a month after our wedding! Talk about having a sign of the Lord’s blessing! Being a mother has been the best challenge and no amount of career accolades could compare to the privilege of spending my days with my sweet boy.
This turn of events and complete 180 of my life not only reordered my priorities, but it also granted me opportunities I would not have had otherwise. I have always wanted to write and publish books, and I have started so many projects that I’ve ended up abandoning from lack of time. Being able to dedicate myself to the books I’ve been wanting to work on for years has been another blessing, a dream I hadn’t dared to dream for myself!
Praise God for new beginnings: being a new wife, new mother, and new author. And praise God for the slower seasons of life. I’m looking forward to soaking up these days at home!
With every new adventure I find myself in, I remember Jeremiah 29:11, and one of my favorites, Ephesians 2:10. What Bible verse do you cling to when you find yourself in a new adventure and completely out of your element?
