Hi, my name is Meredith, and I hate “about me” soliloquies as passionately as I did when I set up my first Facebook account.  Facts I will mention, simply because they will tell you a lot about this blog: I am 35. I’m a Tennessee girl who fell in love with a boy from Utah. We started out in the Pacific Northwest, spent a couple of years as business owners in northwestern North Carolina, and are now back in the Chattanooga area – all before our 5th anniversary, whew!  My days are largely spent with our two little girls, ages 3 and 1. I am blessed with an absurdly close-knit, crazy family, and with more friends that have known me half my life than not. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and He is using all the twists and turns of life to strengthen my love and devotion to Him.

A few other trivial (but pertinent) loves: cooking in general, baking in particular; literature in general, British literature in particular; college sports in general, college football in particular, and Alabama football in even more particular.  Actually, let’s devote a single sentence to a resounding “Roll Tide.”  I am convinced I was born in the wrong half of the 20th century, as the fashion, movies, and music of the earlier years runs more to my taste.  I also majored in Political Communication; however, since I have yet to contribute to the war of words professionally, please don’t hold it against me.