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Monday, December 08th, 2008 | Author: Melinda

Greetings! My name is Melinda Jane Wilson Thompson, and I have been married to my wonderful husband, Jeff for 30 years. The vision for a website such as this has been burning in my soul for a very long time. The first 20 years of our marriage were, for lack of a better word, crappy! We had such financial struggles, marital struggles, parenting struggles…you name it, we struggled about it! There were months at a time where I felt so lonely I thought I would die, and I would have given anything to be able to have a safe place to vent about what we were going through. That is the purpose of this site: to allow you, the readers, to write in with your questions or concerns, and then we will work together toward a solution. You can comment on someone’s concerns, or you can comment on my comments about those concerns. My passion is to create a caring community with the purpose of strengthening marriages and families in this country and all around the world.

In my adult lifetime I have been a roofer, a plumber, a carpenter’s helper, a concrete worker, a seamstress, a wedding videographer and photography assistant, a landscape engineer, and newspaper deliverer. When I finally “grew up” and got my children into school, I became a junior high math teacher, which is what I’ve done for the past several years. Currently, I have entered yet another phase of my life; that of caring for an aging parent. Every season of our lives has had its unique challenges, but the grace of God has sustained us in each one. We now have a wonderful marriage and four marvelous, grown children, and I feel compelled to share with others what has been so freely given to us. So, here is your invitation to join us. Blog in with your question, concern or comment, and we will find answers together.