About Me

Hi out there! Welcome to the part of the website that I get to tell you about myself. I’m so incredibly happy you’ve decided to even look at this web page enough to want to know more about me. Anyways, I’m Jacqueline. I’m a 30 year old catholic mom of 5. Please believe me when I say chaos reigns supreme in my life, even if I am always trying new ways to counter it all.

Chaos at its finest is a place that I get to explain how big families function. How, even though we joke about it being chaotic and loud, its still runs like anyone else’s home. Trust me, I’ve tried and failed at several tactics to keep my family running smooth and stress free, so let me use this forum as a way to help any of you from falling down the rabbit hole of so many tricks to being organised, to time management, to structuring lifestyles, and using family charts! Plus I’ll do it all while keeping God at the forefront of my families life.

I want to help you realize that in everything we do for our families, we can do for God. My vocation in life was called to be a mom. I love this job! I thrive knowing every day will be different than the last, and that nothing is ever really stress free. I relish the idea that every time I want to cry due to screwing up or a life’s stress, I can turn it around and give it to God, and use it as another way to grow in my faith.

So now to the part where I actually tell you more about my life…

I’ve been married to my husband Eric for close to nine years, but we dated five years before we got married. He was my high school prom date 😉 We met when I was 17 and I had no idea what I wanted out of my life. Eric, thankfully, was 18 and already working on his life plan. I didn’t know it then but apparently he put me into his life plan the day we met.

Eric and I went to college together before graduating and getting married three weeks later. I have a bachelors degree in social work with an emphasis on child development. I knew two things graduating college: one, I was never going to make a ton of money and two, my kids, when we had them, would be loved so much that they would never question their importance in my life. Eric got a degree in construction management, with a dream to own his own custom residential housing company.

We knew before we ever got married that we wanted a bigger than average family. And we wanted to do it young. So after marrying in June with a wonderful honeymoon in Jamaica, we started our lives together in a smaller city in northern Missouri. Fast forward 9 years and we have five beautiful children so far. Three boys and two girls!

During those nine years, we have moved out of the country and back into the country. We bought our first home and sold it three years later. Then acquired a dog at some point along the way. And Eric got to start his dream company. We’ve had our fair share of heartaches, with a miscarriage while in Canada, and a really rough year financially while Eric got his company up and running. but through it all we’ve grown stronger as a family and more dedicated to each other and to our children’s happiness both now and in the future.

I decided before the birth of my first child that I wanted to be a homemaker. I mean, its not glamorous or glitzy, and the pay is absolutely the worst, and I am so far from perfect that it hurts. Plus, there is never a single second that I am not on the clock. But the benefits far out weigh all of that. Being with my children every day is a dream come true. Being the cook, the cleaner, the educator, the nurse, the architect, and the comforter for all of my kids is something I will never give up. Sure, there are days where I want to run away screaming from the sheer volume of my house, but that’s just another check in my “giving it all to God” column. However, this is the only life we get and I want to know that at the end I did the best for my people and for myself.

So come along with me as I fumble through this life trying to be a better mother for my kids, a better wife for my husband, and a better person for the world.

God Bless!