Thanks for joining me and welcome!

This blogging jazz is all new to me, but I am super-duper excited to share and learn in this new little adventure of mine. It has been 2 years in the making. Not because I have actually put that much time in thinking what I am going to blog about.

But because of the other stuff.

Insert inner voice.

“Are you absolutely crazy? Who would want to hear about what you have going on? What are people going to say about me starting a blog? Will they be supportive? Or not so much? Am I really ready to share that much of myself? Do people even want to hear from me? What will my husband say?”………yadi yadi ya.

Ok, I must admit. My husband’s view of this has been my last hangup. So today, I still don’t know what he will say but I am very optimistic that he’ll still love me. That I will be happier adding an outlet to our crazy life and that,….well….happy wife…..happy life. Right?!? I know that you know what I am talking about.

So back to that voice. The one that nag, nag, nags.
Notice how that voice can be…well, honestly…just a colossal pain in the you know what. Making one second guess things along the way. Not cool. Not cool.

And then I heard it.

It wasn’t my voice. It was someone else’s, who was presenting as a keynote speaker for a Women’s Ag Conference ( seriously love that thing). The voice came from Rebecca Undem. She is a freaking fantastic human being. This is what she said.

“What other people think of you is none of your business.”

Hmmm….Well I’ll be.
She must. Be. Crrrraaaazzzzy.
Who in the world in their right mind, would believe that to be true.

So I said, “Game on inner voice”.

Since it was still causing me some conflict, I thought I might want to figure out how in the world she came up with these crazy, ludicrous things. So I bought her book, “Mommy Got Her Groove Back”, and then…..I actually read it. It is as good as it sounds and I was pleased to have more dawning realizations!

And I decided that was it. I was for sure….absolutely for sure, no questions asked, going to start a blog. I told friends I was going to pull the trigger and do this thing!!!!!

And then a year went by.  So………….

My voice and my gut and all of my being now says, it is time. You are ready for this. Let’s do it. You’ve got this sister. And thus, about 6 months ago, I picked the name of the blog and figured that one day, when I had free time…..yes….you heard me. Free Time. That I would start this blog thing I was talking about.

Well, beautiful people, the time is now. Not because I have free time among remodeling a house, landscaping, working a full-time job, chasing kids to activities, birthday parties, anniversaries, choosing to be the head master peon coordinator for Homesteader Days to name a few. Life is crazy sometimes!

Nope. Not free time. But time to do things for myself as part as self-care. I have acknowledged that I am doing this for me as much as anyone and I am making it happen! I’ve realized I really miss writing, love story telling and somehow for whatever crazy reason, I seem to have a lot of really random, interesting and thought provoking things happen to me and I am prepared to rock this. I get to feed my soul with goodness, fill your brains with thoughts, and hopefully, just hopefully share a little bit more of my light and passion into this world.

 

Starting was the first step.

Welcome to Beautifully Unrefined!

Join me on my journey! I can’t wait to see where this adventure takes us!

xoxo
Bethany

 

P.S. Check Rebecca out at https://www.facebook.com/RebeccaUndem. You won’t be disappointed! 🙂

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton