New Blog....The Meaning Behind the Name!

I am not new to the blogging world. In a way blogging has been like therapy for me. I started a blog when I found out I was pregnant with triplets (http://butlertriplets.wordpress.com) in order to update people on my pregnancy. After I lost two of my three babies, I started a blog in memory of them (http://rememberingbradyandben.blogspot.com). It was a place I could go to talk about my grief and write poetry about my boys. It was a place where I could tell their story.

I will never be over my grief totally...you don't get over the death of your child. However, it has been four years and I decided that I needed a blog just about life in general. I am raising my one surviving son Braxton and that little boy keeps each day interesting for sure. So thus this new blog was born.

The name comes from a famous quote that has become very dear to me...Life is Not About Waiting for the Storms to Pass, it is Learning to Dance in the Rain. I found this saying after my babies died and I totally felt like it described my life. I have definitely weathered some storms. I am a planner. I like to control exactly what is going to happen in my life. However, life had other plans for me....it through me in the middle of a storm and it was sink or swim. So I have learned to stop obsessing over planning and just learning to live for the day...to dance in the rain. So I am putting on my dancing shoes...here goes!