Who The Hell Is MeL?!

Hi there.

I'm MeL.

I'm a stay at home mom, which means I spend my days wrangling my 3-year-old son, Jack, and his baby brother, Tobin. It also means my life is full of nearly equal measures of joy and desperation.

I grew up all over the US, moving about every two years until I started High School. No, my dad wasn't in the military, nor was he a spy or a member of the witness protection program. We just moved a lot.

After graduating from high school in California I attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, until it made my head explode. You could not lure me back there with any enticement, not even a limitless supply of curries and a bottomless vanilla latte. And that is saying something.

I landed in the DC area in 1999 and have lived here, in various residences spanning the entire metro area, for the past 8 years. In that span I met T, moved in with him, married him, and made a couple of kids with him. In 2004 we bought our first house and now reside happily in the suburbs with the other breeders.

I am the ninth of ten kids. I was raised a mormon, and am in fact descended from a very long line of mormons-- dyed in the wool, polygamist, handcart pulling ones. I try not to dwell on it; I started my recovery in 1999 and I'm still working on it. My membership officially ended in July 2006.

I started blogging in 2003 as a way to let friends and family know what we were up to, but it slowly evolved into a way for me to vent all the chaos in my head.

Please feel free to comment or join in on my conversations with myself. Please note, however, that I do reserve the right to remove your comment if I deem it offensive or in any way threatening.

Welcome, and thanks for stopping by.