G is (also) for Gillian

That's my name, Gillian. Jillian with a "G" as I've always had to refer to it. (Thanks Mom!) I'm 25, had my first son, August Paul, on March 29th of this year, and I've been married for 5 years to my high school sweetheart, Jeremy. We also procured three dogs and two cats in the meanwhile. Nova is our rottweiler mutt and Toby and Lucy are our pittbull mutts(both rescues). Our kitty cats are Lilo (short for "Uh-li-lo-hi" which is Cherokee for "adorable")  and Ellie Mae (which is short for the fatty black and white southern belle who people always think is pregnant). I really like parenthesis, haha. OK. Things you should know about me....or us...

- Nothing has ever been easy for us. We date, we get death threats.We get a home, it burns down. We decide to have children, we're diagnosed with unexplained infertility. You get the point. But isn't everyone's life that way? To some extent? I don't even know....Moving along

- We are non-denominational, however highly spiritual. We believe that God loves all people who are good. Regardless of their religious brand.

-We're frugal. We don't need much to make us happy. I like it this way. Eventually we will move to the mountains and try to atttain a off-grid sustainable living style. Yeah, I know what you're thinking "Damn dirty hippies!" We're just trying to break the cycle of 9 to 5 back breaking labor that deprives children of quality time with their parents and forces us to be slaves to our mortgages. The definition of hippie is "someone who rejects the established culture". If that's what you mean, then yes. We are hippies. Just not dirty ones, we rather like hygiene.

-Couponing is a love-hate relationship with me. I hate shopping, but love saving money, so if i can drag myself to the store you better believe i'm getting 40-50% savings!

- We are artists. I'm a sketch artist, I just have no time to do it because of that "slave to mortgage" thing I meantioned earlier. Jeremy is a metal sculpturist among other things. If you can dream it up and it agrees with gravity, then he can make it out of metal. No really! He's a third generation blacksmith. He's amazing!

- Our son is the light of our lives- The miracle that filled the holes in our hearts left by nearly 2 years of infertility. Correction; overfilled the hole, and flooded our lives with more love than humanly imaginable(unless you have already experienced IF of course). <3 It helps that he's been sleeping through the night since he was 5 weeks old as well! He's awesome! He is turning 4 months old on the 29th, I hate that he's growing up. But he does do cool new things everyday so I guess its ok....

- Lastly, we are goofballs. We are "goobers".