Update

Hello, friends and family! It's been a while since I updated my blog. Every week since the beginning of February has been a whirlwind. I had media appearances promoting Forever. For Real. at the beginning of the month. Then my new position as Executive Director with Blended Love (it's a dream-come-true job for me!) was announced. I also had about five appearances a week on average. I judged the Oklahoma Elite USA / Miss Sooner State American Coed double header pageant last weekend, created my iFace with my fabulously gifted sponsors at New Day Media, learned a lot about marketing and creating relationships via the social media at the New Media Labs in Broken Arrow, trained for my position as the Vice President Public Relations of Toastmasters Tulsa Club #148, visited my favorite kids in Mrs. Mills' 5th grade class at Skelly Elementary, and I'm sure I left something out!

I'm so grateful to all of my sponsors, especially Oxygen, Inc. at the Promenade mall. As I have been running from one event to the next, Sarah Oh and her team at Oxygen have helped me to look and feel my best by dressing me in fabulous, affordable, youthful-but-not-too-youthful styles for all of my events and meetings. I also graded my first exams for the semester for my trig students and I was really sick for a bit. I had strep throat and a sinus infection. (Yuck! Maybe that's too much information? Sorry!) Life has been crazy but fun.

Bobby and I had a beautiful Valentine's Day. He was also promoted this month (I'm so proud of my hard-working man!). Even though we have been struggling financially due to my reduced hours at Tulsa Community College, I feel that it has really helped us to focus on what is really important in life. I have the opportunity to live my dream, helping children of divorce and helping couples nurture their relationships, with my husband's full support. I'm so very grateful that he stands behind me in this!

The Mrs. Oklahoma pageant will be here before we know it! I'm getting excited, and I'm feeling that it's crunch time. It's time to dot my i's and cross my t's to make sure I give it my very best. Honestly, no matter what happens, I'll be fine with whatever God has planned for me. I just don't want to take anything for granted. I also don't want to forget why I'm really doing this. Pageantry is fun and I love confidence and the sense of accomplishment that comes from preparing to do your very best -- but I also know that for me, being Mrs. Oklahoma is about serving others and being a role model, and more specifically, about addressing the divorce problem and changing the divorce culture. If I spend a few less hours in the gym because I'm out in the community making a difference, that's fine by me. I take care of myself, but I don't obsess over it, because serving others is really what being Mrs. Oklahoma is all about.

I'll post pictures and blog posts about February's events as soon as I get a little downtime! I'm off to trig! I'll write again soon.