My Beginnings in a Nutshell
When I decided to begin this blog, I asked myself "what do I want to write about?" The answer was easy: getting my story out there. And helping people." I know, it sounds pretty cliche, but I have a feeling that my story will help at least someone out there, somewhere. I was born and bred in the swampy Pelican State of Louisiana. One would think that I stayed in Louisiana, since I am writing from my apartment IN Louisiana, but no. No less than a month after I turned three, we moved. My parents, me, my sister, my newly one-year old brother, a 16 year old poodle and 12 bins the size of bathtubs full of our stuff to move the South America, Peru, to be exact. No one ever expected that, but there we were, the only American family for cities, my parents barely knew any type of Spanish, and no true plan. You see, my dad was called to mission work and brought us all along. As a child, I was entranced by a new place, there were so many new adventures to be had and as the year