Hello there!
We may not have met yet, so please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mel Seeley. I am mom to a lot of kids. My husband had five kids already when I met him and together we had three more. Since then we have lost one daughter and gained a son in law and three grandchildren.
I started homeschooling the youngest three children in 2015. Two of which have graduated since then. One of which, only just this year. So now I am only homeschooling my youngest, who is in high school. Homeschooling has been and continues to be a challenging and yet somehow rewarding pastime.
I have been slowly, so slowly, been working on writing in a variety of areas. As you may have guessed, I write a blog. I talk about a variety of things. Things I have learned along my journey as a mother, believer, my journey with type 2 inflammation, my grief journey, and my journey with cancer, among other things. I also share stories and tales of unlikely woe. I have two books I am actively working on writing, as well as many others in various states of progress. One of the books I am working on is nonfiction and the other is fiction. The nonfiction book is about my grief journey in the years since we lost our daughter. The fiction book that I am working on the most often, which ironically is not the one with the most developed storyline, is a second chance supernatural fiction. I also do a lot of review writing for work. And I journal…..a fair bit.
I have recently started a couple of YouTube channels. The main one is @Melseeley where I am working on putting together videos about living with type 2 inflammation, decluttering, sharing what God is doing in my life, and other random things. The second is is @livinglifereviews where I do videos about products that I have tried.
This site has a store of products I have designed or personally tried and found to be useful or enjoyable to use or in the case of books, read.
I am also a veracious reader who enjoys reading the Bible, fairytale retellings, supernatural fantasy, some historical romance, romantic thrillers as well as wide variety of nonfiction books that I mostly start reading and then get distracted by another one and another one. Sometimes I do eventually finish some of them, lol. I also read random other things along the way.
I have three dogs, (that I am allergic to but can’t bear to part with.) one crazy little dog and two labs; one chocolate and one vanilla. I enjoy spending time with my kids and grandbabies and friends. Spending time with my amazing church family and especially my lovely Bible study ladies. I enjoy going to the movies and roller skating. (although I haven’t been physically up to that as often as I would like.) I also enjoy watching a variety of movies and TV shows from a broad timeframe.
For the last several years of my life I have struggled with a variety of debilitating health issues that have significantly affected my ability to interact with the world around me. Going on two years ago now, one of my health issues finally got a name. Type two inflammation. Which essentially seems to mean that my body think that everything in the world is out to get it. So, it’s solution to that is to then attack me. Cause that makes sense right? I also have a laundry list of allergies, that just seem to feed off of the aforementioned problem. Twice I have been exposed to significant levels of mold that left it’s own mark on my health. I have had four different kinds of cancer over a large chunk of my adult life. The good news is that this year I celebrated six years cancer free.
My hope is that through this site I will be able to connect with those, like myself, who have struggled with their health, their walk with God, with loss and so many other things. I hope that together we can continue to make our way forward in this life, choosing each day, to not give up, to not let go of the hope of what the future may bring.