What's in a Name?

Lately I've been doing a lot of reading of Jane Austen. I'm currently working on Mansfield Park, which has been one of my favorite Austen books to date. My husband has been watching the Showtime Series The Tudors and we've found that we both enjoy movies about that time in history. Anything to do with the British Monarchy is entertaining.

It probably didn't help that I was watching Sense and Sensibility when I started sketching out ideas for this blog.

The "Abundant Ambitions" part steams from the fact that I've started many, many hobbies, including writing a blog, and I never seem to finish them. I have a multitude of interests, but the only thing I've successfully accomplished is going to school and earning my degree. If I could go to school forever, I do believe I'd accomplish more.

I paint, draw, quilt, decorate, cook, coupon, scrapbook, write, dabble in photography, and even do genealogy research. It boils down to this - I like to create and I love my family. Anything to do with the two interests me.

The blogs I have created before focused only on one aspect of my life: couponing, being a step-parent, journaling, being a military wife, even one centered around weight loss. The trouble is that I get bored with a single activity, so writing about that single activity get's boring, too.

The main goal of Lady August is to catch all of those hobbies and place them here in order to accomplish something by simply having a place to keep everything that's not quite finished yet.