A Little Blurb About Me

Hi, my name is Beth, and blogging is kinda new to me. I live in the beautiful state of Virginia with my husband and two children. We have a very sweet, simple life together, and we love the Lord. I work part time as a Mental Health Counselor; I work with adults who have mental illnesses and my specialty is Schizophrenia. I absolutely LOVE what I do, and I was blessed with THE perfect job.

My husband and I have been married for 11 years and as I said, we have two children-a girl, age 10, and a boy- age 8. We are very blessed with these two bright, healthy, beautiful children. I'm a mom, first and foremost, and I fit my work schedule around theirs. I'm home every morning to take my children to school, and home every afternoon in plenty of time to pick them up from school. My family is my whole life. I came from a not-so-happy home life, so I tend to overcompensate for what I missed out on. I can analyze myself all day long; after all, that's kinda what I do for a living.

I'm sort of new to blogging. I tried it out on Xanga.com per a friend's recommendation, but I quickly realized that it's a bit outdated. When I searched for groups of interest, like Christian groups, the most recent posts were from 2005, so I'm hoping to find more recent postings on this site.

Right now my interests lie in getting into great physical shape and furthering my career through pursuing an LPC. I have many requirements (hoops to jump through) to fulfill before I can accomplish either goal. I also want to work on getting closer with the Lord. I hope I can find people with similar interests on this site :) I have been dieting and exercising since Jan 1 (with the rest of the world), and I've lost some weight, though I'm not exactly sure how much... somewhere around 10 pounds would be my guess. I recently started counting calories (within the past week) using a great Iphone app called My Fitness Pal, and I am going to start using P90X tomorrow. I already work out 5-6 times per week, but I want to switch it up and see if the P90X program will help me to lose even more weight. I'm the largest I've ever been, even at 9 months pregnant :( So my goal is to lose around 20-30 pounds by this summer. I want to own a bikini this year, perhaps several. I want my biggest concern to be, "What color bikini should I wear to the pool today?" I want to feel confident, strong, and sexy.

So, that's a little blurb about me. I will blog about my progress throughout the week!