Who I am, anonymously

I decided to remain anonymous on this blog for a couple of reasons.

First, to maintain my personal privacy. I'm not a public figure. Even my previous blogs have only been read by family and friends. I used to want (need?) to be famous and strove to become so, but it's very clear to me now that God intends for me to remain an average, anonymous person, and I'm perfectly okay with that.

Second, to maintain my husband's privacy. Long ago, my husband and I agreed that it is not healthy for a marriage to criticize your spouse to others. Just look what happened to Jon & Kate Gosselin (I don't get that station on my TV, so I'm not a fan of the show, but they were all over the news for a while there). So I don't complain about my husband to anyone. However, there are times when I have issues with him, and I want and need to work through those issues. As an anonymous person writing on an anonymous blog that is not advertised at all, I think I can do that safely.

Third, to maintain my children's privacy. Any one of them might decide to become a public figure when they reach adulthood, and I'd hate to have anything I write here come back to haunt them. Not that there is anything scandalous about any of my kids. They're all adorable and smart and charming. Yes, I'm biased.

So who am I? I'm a 45-year-old Catholic mother with a job outside the home and way too much to handle emotionally, physically and practically. I grew up atheist and became an evangelical Christian as a young adult. I met my husband at church when we were working in ministry together, something we thought we'd always do. Then our church went nuts, so we had to find a new one. After floundering around for a long time (while we struggled with infertility and my husband's career took a major nosedive), we ended up in the Catholic Church. More on that in another post. We now have three kids, a dog, a modest house, and a minivan that's been paid for for nearly 2 years. And I'm still working.

I did not intend to be a mother with a job outside the home. But here I am, and this is part of my personal angst.

So...how do you know an anonymous person is being honest? Well, you're just going to have to take me at my word on that one. I have no reason to lie. This blog is between me and God, after all, and He already knows what the truth is. My goal is to be just as honest as possible.