Scattering Flowers

    I am Jackie, thirty-something or other, wife to Jay and mother to two growing boys, Ace – my teenage athlete who never tells me anything, and Ringo – my tween sweetheart who still gives me kisses.  I am also a full time university student so life at my house is not very pretty… or very clean, but I deal in boys and they don’t really care.  

    I am also a recent convert to Catholicism, a former Calvinist, and self proclaimed know it all, who is learning just how much she doesn’t know every day.  I loved my life and my faith in the Presbyterian Church and didn’t leave it because I was unhappy there.  I walked away from what I was comfortable with because I found that I needed more of Jesus than they could offer me.  I found him, body and blood, soul and divinity, in the Eucharist and I haven’t looked back.  

I began blogging in 2006 when friends forced browbeat encouraged me to chronicle my conversion experience.  I didn’t do a very good job of that, but I fell in love with the process of blogging.  I think out loud, and blogging sometimes helps to work things out in my mind without the neighbors calling in the men in little white coats to take me away.