The Basic Bits …

Hello, my name is Bran … And here are TEN basic Facts about Me you Should know before you step/dive/slide sideways into my blog:

1. I love Jesus. I am so grateful for the grace and mercy he shows me in my imperfection. Every. Single. Day.
2. I’m a wife and a mama. I love my little family with all my heart and soul – that will always be at the forefront of everything I am. My husband (who, for a pretend attempt at privacy will hereinafter be referred to as “Beans”) and I have been married since 2017. We have a beautiful son (“Dooder”) and Beans is “Reeber” to my daughter (“Bugg”).
3. I really do need that grace EVERY SINGLE DAY. I am imperfect – flawed – scarred – and full of sin. Without his Grace, the Lord only knows where I’d be today (but I can promise you it would be somewhere falling off the cliff of insanity).
4. I love Tacos. No further explanation needed.
5. I work, full-time, from home and school my children, full time, from home my children are getting ready to start public schooling.
6. I am not an expert on ANYTHING. I have opinions (sometimes quite big ones) and I have experiences, but in reality, the only thing I am even close to being an expert on is making a mess of things and writing about it in a way that helps me to laugh at my own mishaps.
7. I hold some “not-so-popular” opinions and I’m okay with you disagreeing with them.
8. I love books. Old books. New books. Slightly used books. I love to read. I love to look at them as they fill up my bookshelf. I love to shop for them. If you ever need a gift for me, books plus tacos = the perfect gift.
9. I survived 15 years of domestic abuse and violence (yes, you read that right – no it is not a typo – FIFTEEN years.). I have c-PTSD, Panic Disorder, Depression, and GAD on top of PCOS. My scars run deep and I live every day trying to outsmart my own trauma responses – but regardless of my struggle, I am thriving and learning to be better than I was yesterday. One day and one prayer at a time.
10. I am still growing – evolving – learning. I make mistakes every day. Some days, I can barely crawl through each moment – other days I feel as though I have been blessed with a cool breeze in my sails to help deliver me to my next stop along the way. But no matter what I face and no matter how the waters may toss me about – I know that Jesus has my hand inside his and he will never let me go.