My Story (So Far)
- rmillerme
- Feb 17, 2019
- 4 min read
Hi, and welcome to Random Rachael! I haven't had a blog for several years now, but I am excited to begin afresh here on my new site. Feel free to check out my "About" page, but this post will get into a little more detailing with who I am and what I do.
Let's jump in shall we?
WELCOME
My name is Rachael N. Miller and I love a lot of things.
I love Jesus. I love my amazing, (and HOT) husband, heehee. I love tea and books, art and music, writing and photography. I am a knitter, not a crocheter. I will try most foods at least once just to say that I have tried them. I have currently written and published two books; and there's nothing I like quite like a good, deep conversation over a hot beverage.
Because I love a lot of things, it is hard for me to fit myself into an organized 'niche' group to market myself towards. I have thought many times about starting a blog like this one, or making an Etsy account, or a photography website for my budding business. But whenever I would make moves to do that, I would always get overwhelmed with the sheer amount of options and subjects out there. Yes, I am a photographer, but I am also an author and an artist. I wasn't sure how to marry all my loves into one space without it turning into a hodgepodge of random crap.
I think I struggle a little bit with perfectionism. So this blog project is a big step for me--a person who likes things to be all put together from the get-go. You'll have to give me grace as I try my best to learn how to organize this site in the weeks and months to come.
"Random Rachael" was a name my mother gave me a while back because I was her child that would burst out with whatever I was thinking at random times. The only problem is that I never would explain my thoughts from beginning to end, but I would start talking while I was in the middle of a thought, leaving my poor mother saying "Where did that come from?"
I decided to call my site "Random Rachael" because since I don't really have a niche I fit into with all my thoughts, I thought I'd create my own type of 'lifestyle' niche called "semi-organized random thoughts by Rachael'. ;) In the posts ahead, you may see my adventures with photography, poetic prose, gift guides, recipes I decided to try, my thoughts about miscarriage, etc. I hope to end up with a little more structure as I figure out what I enjoy writing about. :)
MY STORY
Originally from Nebraska, I have since been transplanted to Greeley, Colorado where my husband and I moved for school in 2015. My husband Sam and I met when we were 5 and 6 years old in swimming lessons, and our families were close for several years before his moved out of state. We reconnected in high-school after his family returned to the church we grew up in, and connected over our mutual love for The Lord of the Rings. We soon found out that we were meant to be together forever, and got married under a giant elm tree on July 12th, 2014.
In 2015, just a month after we moved to Colorado, Sam and I found out that we were pregnant unexpectedly with our first child. We had no jobs at the time, so the prospect of being parents in a new state with new surroundings was daunting to say the least--but my dream has always been to be a mom, and we knew that God would provide for us in this stressful and uncertain time.
October 13th, 2015 we went in for our first ultrasound and discovered that we had experienced a blighted ovum miscarriage, and had lost our first baby without knowing it. Devastated, I struggled through months of grieving and trying to figure out who I was now that my new-found identity of 'Mom' had been stripped away from me.
In the months and years that have followed my loss, I have established a following (especially on Instagram) of connecting with other loss moms by sharing my story and experiences. I also wrote and published a book about our story called Silent Stories: Sharing Hope, Love, and Loss after Miscarriage. I have become an advocate of sorts for moms of all ages and walks of life who have experienced pregnancy loss--hoping to bring to light this common but taboo subject in a gentle and understanding way. Here at Random Rachael, I will share some more in-depth posts about this topic, but that won't be all I share about. *Wink*
Currently, I am working at Chick-fil-A here in Greeley as a specialized trainer and communications expert. I spend most of my time either at work or at home connecting with people and trying to keep my messy life under control as much as possible.
I hope to get to use this platform as my creative outlet in the months to come. I think I am in a season of figuring out what it means to live in this 'imperfect, but good' time in my life as well as I can. I hope to get to reach out further than I could before on this platform. Thank you for taking the time to read and I hope to get to know my readers more as time goes on.
-RNM
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