About me

Welcome to my blog! My name is Melissa Ann. I am a wife, mom, grandma, friend, teacher, musician, business owner and until just recently, a student. If that isn’t enough I decided to take on being a blogger.

My husband and I were previously married, and both had two children from those relationships. Then we adopted a daughter from foster care almost 7 years ago. So we have five children total. Our two oldest are now in their late twenties, married, and have children of their own. The younger one of those two daughters has not spoken to us in years, which means we have not met our three grandsons. The other daughter is involved in our lives and we are involved with her daughter and son.

The other three ”children” live at home. The oldest of those will be twenty-one next month, goes to college online thanks to Covid, and works for a retail marketing company. She is an amazing artist and loves to leave ”blessings” on your phone if you leave it somewhere. The one and only boy is now nineteen, attends college not far from home, and is a music education student. He lives on campus, but still goes to church with us each week. The youngest is now eighteen, a high school senior, and has done SO much growing since we first met her. She plans to attend college this next fall and major in secondary teaching with a minor in creative writing.

My husband is absolutely amazing! My life would be so extremely different if it weren’t for him! He is the one who encouraged me to go back to school and get my teaching degree not long after we got married and then took care of everything so that I could be successful. I’m not saying we have a perfect marriage and never have a disagreement. I mean, come on. We are human, but we work to make sure we fix any issues that arise so that we do not end up where we did with our first marriages.