About

Welcome to Molly Makes Do, I'm glad you're here.

I'm Molly, wife to Ben and mommy to Henry (here since February 2011).  MMD was started as we were taking the road less traveled detour on our paths to becoming parents and adults which included extreme career changes and a over a year of multi - generation living while welcoming the next generation into our family.  Life surprised us, as it often does, and by the end of 2011 we found ourselves in a home of our own and on to the next adventures in our lives.

We live in a little home of our own right next to the middle of nowhere Iowa where we returned to after years of traveling across the United States.  We came home to be surrounded by family and the simplicity of life we crave.

What You'll Find Here:

• A Little Bit of This and That - In the Make Do spirit you'll find all the little bits and pieces of life that get patched together to make something greater.  There will be reflections and information, pictures and words as they come and are pieced together and shared.
• I have a desire to share the good in life, particularly when it comes to parenthood and marriage, but just because that is a focus I want you know that it is not the whole story.  Just like piecing a quilt together there are parts that are perfect and seamless and parts that need a little work and sometimes there are parts that get ripped out and started over from scratch.  Sometimes the process is important and sometimes it's the finished project.
• While the original intent of MMD has shifted since it's inception I hope it will be a place to share the imperfect beauty in our worlds. I hope you remember that we all are called to "Make Do" with different aspects of our lives and at different points in our journeys and each of us has the opportunity to make something wonderful out of what we have, just at this moment.  In many ways we're all given a bag of scraps, mismatched, used and little stained or worn out in spots; but, it's up to us to decide whether we'll let that bag sit and waste away claiming the whole time that it's nothing of use to us or we can piece it together, bit by bit, to make something wonderful and lasting. 

A Little Bit of Me:

• I am a working mother out of necessity, but a homemaker in my heart.
• I am proud to be a wife and mother.  It is my vocation, my utmost calling in life.
• I am a kind of crunchy, kind of attachment parenting, kind of Montessori influenced, roll with the punches kind of mother who believes that taking a deep breath and starting over solves most day to day problems.
• I am excited to be entering into the Catholic Church Easter 2012 and am eager to share my faith and the way it shapes my life.
• I want to be a librarian someday.
• I want to have more kids more than anything.
• I believe that the work you do with your hands shapes your soul.
• I'm a nerd - I have knit one full size and one miniature sized Dr. Who scarf, need I say more?
• I am terribly introverted in real life.
• I don't get out much {see above}.
• My day to day goal is to try, and I don't always if rarely achieve this.  I've failed, spectacularly, in my life and will continue to do so until the day  I move on something better, but in the mean time I try and make do.

I'm love contributing to a friends blog if you'd like me to be a guest poster or have any other questions email me at mollymakesdo@gmail.com!