Some Crooked Letters and a Hello…

Hello blogging world! My name is Meadow or Meada for short. I am simply a wife and mother, nothing more nothing less. I live in northern Mississippi. You can remember to spell it the Mississippian way if you like M, crooked letter, crooked letter, I, crooked letter, crooked letter, I, humpback letter, humpback letter, I……seriously that is how I learned how to spell Mississippi!!! Anyway enough with the grade school lesson. My family consist of my hubs Brad, and two of the sweetest, most loving, and handsome boys, if I do say so myself. Their names are Braden (10yo) and Alex (5yo). They get their good side from my family and the rest from their dad’s family……just kidding!

Our home sits in the middle of 30 beautiful acres of woods. No houses next door, no loud cars zooming up and down the road, just the birds chirping and the cicada buzzing. It truly is a little piece of paradise. I am telling you this because this is how I got the name for my blog-Behind the Cedar Posts! When my husband & I were building our home in 2008ish, we were in a quandary as to what to use as porch post. We wanted something large, but also something that would blend into our surroundings. While looking at molding to go in our house, we explained to the owner of the molding place (we will call him molding guy for lack of a better name) that we were looking for porch posts. Anyway to make a long story short, a couple days later we received a call from said molding guy and he told us that he had just acquired some big, long posts of cedar from the local Amish community. He had let the Amish use his portable sawmill and in return they had cut molding guy some cedar posts. So that is how Behind the Cedar Posts blog was born, because I will be sharing, not only tips I have learned on various thing, but some of the happenings of our home, which is behind the cedar porch posts. Wow, that was a long story, sorry!

If you have made it this far in my post then; thank you, thank you, and thank you! I was trying to explain the name without helping to send you off to the land of nod! Ok, standup and stretch…continue reading. Almost done, promise! So my hope for this blog is to vent, I mean talk about issues, and to also tell about some of the money saving tricks my husband and I have learned over our short course of being married for 10 years. I want to also share my journey through going back to college at 30+ years of age. I honestly want comments and feedback that is how one grows. So with this post I say a big ol’ WELCOME to… Behind the Cedar Posts!!!!