About
Welcome to my blog!
This is my little corner of the internet, my little online “home.” I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Who Am I?
Married since 1998 — you do the math, my brain is tired from teaching multiplication all day! I met Big Daddy (James) when I was 17 and fell in love almost immediately. Within a few months I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him! We were married two years later and now we live in Texas with our 3 kids (born in ’00, ’03 and ’05 – more math, my brain just can’t take that right now, where’s the chocolate?!) Big Daddy is self-employed, which has its challenges and its benefits, and recently started a blog of his own! I also love Jesus, coffee, words, and the color teal. For fun I read, blog, eat chocolate, can food with my mom and send the kids outside to play.
The rest of the crew:
During the day I school the kids. It’s hard work. I love it.
Princess wants to be a fashion designer. Loves to draw, paint, doodle and sleep.
Drama Queen wants to do something with music. Loves to sing, play around on the piano, climb like a monkey when nobody’s looking- just started learning guitar.
Little Prince is majoring in sword fighting and Piracy of the Seven Seas. Loves to irritate his sisters. Learns by proximity and like lightning, never lands in the same spot twice.
We also have a cat, Austin, and a cat who thinks he’s ours (I call him NotMyCat,) and now we have a pet cockatiel named Captain Jack. Drama Queen has declared the bird “better than a cat, because you can teach them to do things and you can’t teach a cat to do ANYTHING!” Like my tagline said for a very long time: Our house is often messy, sometimes loud, and never boring!
Why Do I Blog?
I enjoy it.
For starters…I like to talk. Everybody who knows me in real life just cracked up laughing. It’s true. Unfortunately I like to keep the conversation going so much that I usually end up talking about myself and what’s going on in my world TOO much.
Welcome to MY world. Mwahaha!
Just kidding! I hope (as I’m trying to learn in real life) I can learn to listen as much as I talk. I also like to make friends, share my faith, encourage others and learn new things – blogging is a good means to all those ends! I also like to connect with other like-minded bloggers, to expand my circle of good Christian influences.
Blogging helps me do all of these things. From home. And that’s pretty cool.
Oh — one more thing…
Hubs ASKED me to blog.
I originally began blogging because my husband wanted me to do it. He heard that some people were starting to make money with it. Yup. It’s true. Unfortunately for him I got into it and grew to love the blogging part of it – with or without a paycheck. I also quickly realized I’m not cut out to be a professional blogger.
No, that’s not quite it. Let me rephrase that – I CHOOSE not to be a “professional blogger” at this point in my life.
The bottom line is that being a good wife, mom and homeschool teacher land much higher on the priority list and I’d much rather invest the bulk of my time on doing that. On the other hand, I’m not completely giving up on the paycheck part (however small it may be.) I do believe that if God wants blogging to help contribute to our finances in any way, He’s going to help me do it without compromising on my other (God-given) priorities.
I am, however, learning that my blog is more than just a hobby. I need to treat it like the business that it is.
So there needs to be balance. I hope what I bring to the table through this blog is a good balance.
What do I blog?
I blog as a stay-home, homeschooling, Christian housewife with 3 young children. Typically, that’s the kind of reader my blog will appeal to. However, my blog is open to all moms, stay home or not, homeschooling or not. (Christian or not, though you might get tired of hearing my point of view. If not – well, howdy!)
How do I blog?
I blog with honesty, integrity and my very own opinion. I don’t share my children’s names, or faces, because I also believe in blogging safely. I blog as much as I can when I can – because it is a good outlet for me – but when life calls, I answer. I blog appropriately with a certain measure of privacy because there are some things that just shouldn’t be shared on the internet. At the same time I blog with transparency when I can, to keep it real.
To date, I have not written any paid posts – not that I haven’t had any offers. I am exceptionally choosy accepting paid reviews and if ever do I guarantee to have good reason for choosing the item and promise to point out that I was paid to do the review. Paid reviews will be rare exceptions around here. I have and will continue to review an item (with the free item being the only compensation) if the item is something I’m interested in and think will be a good fit for us.
I am open to guest posting – both willing to write posts for other blogs and publish guest posts on this blog (after approval.) Just ask!
Did I miss anything?
For a little slice of what I’m serving up over here, you can get started on my “Best Of” page!
And now for those little details:
Email me: amber{AT}classichousewife{DOT}com
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