Why name my new blog Sperla? Because it is entirely 100% me. Nobody else has heard of her. Nobody else carries her name. This is Amanda in the raw. My thoughts. My opinions. My struggles. My victories.
The name Sperla came to me one day when I was about 6-7 months pregnant with our first baby working on a landscaping project. I was bent over a large bed of overgrown and dying Junipers holding a chainsaw. The junipers were meeting their doom. Their new home would be the burn pile. After a few hours of sawing them out of the bed, slightly high off of the chainsaw fumes, the name Sperla popped into my head. That is what we were to name our little girl to be born! James was less impressed and insisted that we never name a child Sperla. I on the other hand loved it. I felt it rugged, unique, classy, full of character, short and to the point. Needless to say, our first born was named Annie. Oh the fun we had telling everyone before hand that we were going to name her Sperla. It was a mixture of looks of outright horror or shifty eyes, not wanting to make contact so that I did not see them crack a smile.Sperla represents to me courage to be who you are in all times and places. To stand for what you believe in and fight for it. I have come to a spot in my life I simply cannot sit back and watch what is going on around me. I have to fight for what I believe in. I do not judge others for fighting equally as hard for something that they believe in just because it is something that I do not. We are all on a journey. This is my journey. I hope that as I share my experiences in life that I am not judged nor that my family is judged. This is my story and I embrace it everyday.
