My name is Naomi.

Full disclosure: I like to talk. A lot. My grade school teachers worded it more like this –  “Naomi is a good student…but she doesn’t know when to stop talking”. I never really got in trouble at school but my Mom got more than a few notes about my “overly friendly” personality. I am not one of those annoying people who likes to talk to hear myself talk (well I don’t think I am, but it seems those people never do….). I’m disclosing this early on for one reason: my propensity to be vocally wordy tends to follow me through all avenues. If you hate reading feel free to turn around now, you know like when you see ‘that’ person in Target and you DO NOT want them to see you. Go on, quickly now, I’ll look the other way and we’ll both pretend it never happened. Thanks to the rest of you for waving and acknowledging me in the shampoo aisle! I thoroughly enjoy entertaining others, making people laugh, and engaging in lively conversation. Being quiet while others are talking is not hard for me…respect comes naturally when you grew up with spankings and a Momma who didn’t play around (Momma…if you are reading this, I ADORE YOU). I’m teachable, if I’m listening to someone talk about a subject on which I have minimal knowledge I am respectful and curious – with questions! Believing we can learn the most by listening regularly and attentively to other people is something that comes with maturity, I think. I can never know it all, but I can surround myself with people who know things that I do not. I can use their knowledge in place of my own. (I’d like to use my phone a friend lifeline, please!) 

I’ll dive into my family life, faith, and friends in later posts. Suffice it for now to say I LOVE living this life I was gifted with! God has blessed me abundantly and enabled me in many ways to be a blessing to others. I love to have fun. I don’t like to do a lot of sitting around, I want to be making memories, annoying my kids and husband. If I do sit, I’d rather it be on my front porch rocking chair or on the floor loving my dogs. I considered myself fairly active. I took regular walks and occasionally even exercised (even to the point of sweating sometimes).

I’ve told you a few of the things I AM, but one of the biggest things I’m not (nor have I ever been) is thin. I’ve generally been healthy and always able to keep up with my kids, etc. But, after having the girls in 2004 and 2006 I didn’t take off baby weight. 2.5 years into a sitting desk job found me at my all-time high weight…a number I’m not yet ready to share but I hope to be soon! Life is BUSY for most of us, excuses are far easier to make than changes. I’ve yo-yo dieted a few times but never really kept it off. I never found the willpower to stick to it. Until now. But, unfortunately for me I had to learn my lesson the hard way. A wake-up call in a doctor’s office that, while not life altering, shook me to my core is what it took to get me moving…LITERALLY! Continue reading “An Introduction – Minus the Awkward Silence + My “Why”” →