tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33764498694572358452012-02-16T17:33:44.804-08:00Celestehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04136621488028178493noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376449869457235845.post-65770024322693549172008-09-10T09:09:00.000-07:002008-09-10T09:36:07.224-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-uaXrVdNLBY/SMfxsODQZtI/AAAAAAAABzY/5XRy1kHgbj8/s1600-h/DSC_0085.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-uaXrVdNLBY/SMfxsODQZtI/AAAAAAAABzY/5XRy1kHgbj8/s400/DSC_0085.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244426033084524242" border="0" /></a><br />(<span style="font-style: italic;">Me and daughter Anneliese</span>)<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">A thought crossed my mind to share a little about me with you. It would be helpful, eh? :)<br /><br />My name is Celeste and I am 29 years old, a cradle Catholic, and a <span style="font-style: italic;">working</span> stay-at-home mom and wife. ( I don't sit around watching soap's all day!) I am the wife of a US Marine, and mom of Anthony who is almost 6, and Anneliese who is 2 1/2. We also have a boy who resides in heaven, Thomas Christopher. (Hence a few of the links I have on my main page regarding grief, miscarriage and so on. Things I feel passionately about. )<br /><br />This blogging idea started out initially with documenting the pregnancy of my son. Though on a different blog. This specific blog started shortly after my husband and I married in 2005. (What about our almost 6 year old you might ask? Well, yes, he was born prior to our marriage. After much work on ourselves, and prayer, and more work and more prayer we married.) Anyway, I started blogging shortly after our wedding because my husband left for a two year tour in Japan. Without us. And I was pregnant. Two weeks after he left I discovered I was expecting our second child. Surprise! After getting exceptionally sick during pregnancy I quit my job as a chef for a prestigious winery to stay home and be a mommy. It was my plan for the blog to keep Kevin updated on everything that went on. Of course we spoke constantly on the phone, but I wanted to post pictures and daily news so he could keep up with us while he was away and feel connected.<br /><br />Our daughter was born while he was on a plane headed home for leave. I kept my cell phone near me all through labor and delivery and when he called asking where I was I replied, "At the hospital holding our daughter!" He was sad that he had missed it all, but he was home!<br /><br />18 months after our daughters birth he returned stateside once again and we moved to our current duty station in Southern California, Camp Pendleton.<br /><br />Now I blog to share our life with family and friends. I sometimes use it to vent, share my art or craft ideas, and to just have a little something for myself aside from the kids and life that keeps me busy here at home.<br /><br />I hope you will come back and visit me!<br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3376449869457235845-6577002432269354917?l=celestebowenandfamily.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Celestehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04136621488028178493noreply@blogger.com