Amidst or Amongst???

Ahhh, yes, English composition coming back to haunt me...Such pressure for correct word choice and this is my very first blog! Relax, Amy, relax. No one really cares... do they? My obsessive compulsive mind couldn't just guess, so I had to look it up: AMIDST: in or into the middle of vs. AMONGST: surrounded or encompassed by...Am I "surrounded by" flowers or in the "middle" of flowers...Well, surrounded by sounds like I am about to get overtaken, yikes! In the middle of sounds like I am right there in the trenches...And I am definitely in the trenches...So AMIDST it is...

I chose Amidst the Flowers for the double meaning - flowers as actual plants, which is a reminder to me to always take time to stop and smell the roses, and Flowers as in our last name, which refers to our family and my three little growing "buds," Treyvon - age 5, Cameron - age 3, and Angel Audrey - age 6 months.

This blog will be a series of my thoughts, sometimes deep, sometimes very shallow, sometimes just observing...allthewhile taking in the sweet smells amongst the blooming world around me...

I'm not committing to anything profound here - not trying to change the world or anything, but would like to document my experiences, thoughts, memories of life... Life is most definitely about the journey...I think of my friend, Julia, who is on her own life-changing/saving odyssey, traveling around the U.S. to meet every single facebook and myspace "friend" and blogging about the experiences. Oh yes, she can attest, life is DEFINITELY about the journey.

So this journey begins in my head and travels down through my heart into my hands and out onto this typed up blog...Enjoy my snippets of life...Enjoy the journey... XOXO, Amy & Co.