Rachel Ravellette

On paper, I guess I'm pretty much like most people, so this may seem pretty cliché. But hey, everyone else's bios are trite, too, so it's OK. I mean, this site is called about.me. It's going to be egotistical and narcissistic. It just is. Anyway, here's some stuff about me:

• I love the Lord, and I'm trying to love, serve, and follow Him better daily. I'm thankful for His grace because I really don't do all that great a job with that part of my life.
• I love my husband, Jeffrey. He's my best friend. I know he is because he gets to see me at my silliest, grumpiest, frumpiest, and sloppiest and he's still hanging around. (I mean, he sees the good stuff, too.) He even joins in on my sillies, grumps, frumps, and slo- well, OK. Not the sloppiness. He's pretty neat - in the cleaning sense and in the neat-o sense. He recently completed a legendary beard experiment, in case you were wondering.
• I love my daughter, Paige. She is a silly little toddler who's very kind and very smart. I love watching her learn! My favorite thing right now is watching that little 16-month old start to pretend. Totes adorbs. It's also pretty fun watching her "help" around the house. She loves to clean. She didn't get that from me.
• I love my job. I'm not doing the job I thought I would do when I grew up, but that's OK. I work with good friends and for good friends and family. I work at my church where I'm the "Office Manager," but really I just do whatever needs to be done.
• Real Talk: << I don't cook dinner everynight. Sometimes I use processed foods... on purpose... and I'm OK with that. Sometimes we go to bed with the dishes undone. I HATE to fold laundry. (Truth: I recently conqured a four-month jaunt into an "open-concept dresser system," a.k.a. clean clothes in laundry baskets on the guest bed that I hid in my closet when company came over. It took a lot of folding, but we're recovering). I rarely take my contacts out; it drives my eye doctor nuts, but she says my eyes are beautifully healthy, so she's not concerned. Sometimes I do things that I found on Pinterest, but I've stopped pinning. Spending beaucoup time on Pinterest is a good way to feel like a failure at everything, so I just don't do that anymore. >> So, that's just me. I put mostly the shiny stuff from my life on my blog, Instagram, Facebook, etc., but you should know that not everything's shiny. But that's OK. It's life.