Welcome! I’m glad you made your way over here. By way of explanation: you’ll find this is blog is full of raw life, average everyday experiences from dirty floors, to full sinks; mom without make-up and kids with spit cleaned faces and hair flattened under a ball cap. We are not anything amazing and this blog will reflect that. But we are trying to become better than we are today. I thought, in a blog based on honesty and real life,  it would be important to be upfront about my name: I’m am not Josie… or Jo… or any variation of Josephine that you can come up with. I’m Julie. Hi! But like a lot of things, “Average Julie” just doesn’t have the same pizazz as “Average Josie,” and even though the whole point of this site is the average life, the name needed to be just a bit above average.

We really are just your “Average Joe” family. I have a wonderful husband, who wanted to be referred to as “the epitomised Average Joe” (although I had lots of other ideas like “my knight in shining armor,” “dragon slayer,” “hunk-a-licious” but I was out-voted)  and three adorable “above average” children (I’m sure they are above average, although they have yet to be tested) “Mister”, “Tudders” and our most recent little “Lady Bug”. We really are just your average family, trying to raise children and love each other, looking for the extraordinary along the way.

Take some time, click around, there will be lots to see, learn, implement, and share. Leave a comment and connect with others as we navigate this thing called life. I want this to be a place where you can find a way to embrace your ideals and still accept, love, live, and thrive in your average. By the way, did you know that the name Joseph (and Josephine, Josie, Joe) means “God will add, increase;” “the Lord will enlarge,” and even as a request, “may Jehovah add, give increase.” In essence, if you can relate to our “Average Joe” family, be ready to embrace the extraordinary in your life, recognizing how the Lord is adding to and increasing it as He sees fit. Life can be full of the mundane, ordinary, and even discouraging, but I hope we can learn to see the extraordinary in our everyday average.