I recently read a book by Stephanie Nielson who is a famous blog writer. She is very optimistic and went through a lot of worse things than I did. I look up to her a lot. Unfortunately, I may not be as happy about everything as she is but I think this blog will be very therapeutic for me, not to mention it will also help my left hand to type faster.
I have had a lot of awesome experiences and opportunities in my life that most people don't even dream of. I wish I would have written a blog throughout these opportunities but I didn't so I am just going to list them here to make you all jealous. I also need to be reminded that my life has actually been amazing to this point.
My parents are very dedicated and were always totally supportive of our dreams because they are big dreamers themselves. I have 3 amazing, talented sisters and 1 brother who is also pretty cool, I guess. My parents are Douglas and Susan Howard.
My oldest sister is Katrine Baker. She is 31 and has 6 kids, the oldest being almost 17 years old. I know...she must have been a crazy teenager, right? But no, she was divorced a few years ago with 1 biological daughter and she remarried Brad who was a widower and already had 5 kids. Honestly though, I forget that because Katrine is an amazing mother and the only thing that gives away that she is not all of their biological children is that she is so young. They even look like her. She has a really fun blog to follow about her awesome family it is our-baker-bunch.blogspot.com. Her kids are Katelyn, Tyler, Kyle, Annie, Averie and Olivia.
My second oldest sister is Anna Woods. She is almost 30 and has 4 kids. Anna is also amazing. She is the healthiest eater out of all of us, she is super fit, very organized and so much fun to be around. Whenever I leave her house I feel like I need to be doing a lot more, and I mean that in a good way. She is a great role model. One day I went to her house and she said "I just feel like I have been so unproductive today. I haven't gotten anything done!" She had already made 4 loaves of homemade wheat bread, her house was clean, she had already taken the kids (including my two kids) to the park and was feeding them lunch. It was 12:30. She rocks. Not to mention, she is the thinnest out of all of us girls. Me, Katrine and Charity are all really jealous of her figure and that it seems like she doesn't have to work at all to keep it. Her kids are Sawyer, Bristol, Lilia and Dane.
My older brother is Lex Howard. He is only 15 months older than me, so he is 27 and has 3 boys. Lex and I are really close now that we are older and I am pretty sure that has something to do with the fact that we share in-laws. So Lex's wife is Aileen. Aileen and Cedric are brother and sister. They are from a little town in Germany called Schwarzenberg. Lex is the CEO of a company our Dad started called Balance of Nature. He is very successful in what he does. I think that because Lex and I are so close, it is also really easy for me to be very mad at him a lot. He is Cedric's boss and I feel like he slave drives the hell out of Cedric. Cedi is also a really hard worker and a finisher so he is really easy to take advantage of. I wish In were allowed to hate my husband's boss but because he is my brother, I'm not allowed to. Oh well, who am I kidding. Cedric would work crazy hours even if Lex didn't take advantage of him. He really loves his job. Ok...so off of that rant and back to my big bro. Lex served an LDS mission for two years in South Chicago. He is also a very talented artist. He worked for our church in doing the faux painting and gold leafing inside the Nauvoo, Samoa and New Port Beach temples before his mission. There may have been some other ones too, I just can't remember. His kids are Leeam, Parley and JaseTaylor.
Then there is me. My name is Helena Rae Ebisch, maiden name Howard. I am 26 years old, I have been married to Cedric Ebisch who really is the most amazing man in the world for 3 years in October and we have 2 adorable little boys. Harvey is 23 months old and Jorgen is 10 months old. I really have a very adorable little family. I was home schooled until I was 6. When I was 6 years old, my family lived in Saint Petersburg Russia for 18 months because my Dad was getting his medical degree from Pavlov First Medical University. He was already a very successful chiropractor. He is seriously a go getter. Then I was home schooled again after we got home for pretty much the rest of my growing up years. When I was 17, I lived in Israel to study Hebrew and have a cool experience for 15 months. I never really learned Hebrew very well but I could read and write. While I was there, I lived in a youth hostel, sleeping on a roof, I lived on a kibbuts working on an organic farm and I lived in the Armenian Quarters of the Old City in Jerusalem. I also got scuba certified while I was there. It was an amazing adventure. Charity was with me half of the time. When I got home, I went to a business college in LA owned by Scientology called Hubbard College and I dated a lot as well as almost got engaged to Daniel Eason I think he even had a ring for me...but then I decided to go on a mission. The guy I really thought I was in love with (Chad) got home from his mission around the time I broke up with Danny too. That may have also had something to do with it. Chad, however never proposed (which I am very thankful for now because despite my Dad's, disdain for him I would have said yes) and was really supportive of me going on a mission so I did. When I was 21, I went on a mission to Taizhong, Taiwan mandarin speaking. I rode a bike about 30 miles a day for 15 months. Another 3 months were spent in the Provo, UT Missionary Training Center learning Chinese and how to be a good missionary. I loved that adventure. I really knew who I was and what my purpose was. I gave everything I had to my mission and if I do say so myself, I was a pretty awesome missionary. I loved that time of my life more than anything up to that point. After I got home, I went to Germany with my parents where Cedric was and we were engaged 2 weeks later. I will dedicate a whole blog entry to the story of me and Cedi because it is pretty great. So I got married 2011, we had Harvey in 2012, Jorgen was born in 2013 and I had a massive stroke in 2014. I think that a majority of my blog will be about overcoming the affects of the stroke but also about my life and my adorable family.
Now there is my youngest sister Charity Wight. Her husband is Todd. Charity and I are also really close in age at 17 months apart. She is 24. We have always been best friends. Charity and I share a lot of the same adventures. She lived with me in Israel and we had so much fun together. She is a singer songwriter and she plays the guitar really well. In Israel we would go on Ben Yehuda Street and she would make some good money playing on the street of Jerusalem. We also got scuba certified together while I was there. This link has one of her songs I really like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pjWHyj_RUI everyone should listen! She too is an amazing mom. Her girls are so incredibly well behaved and they exude love. You can tell that they come from a really happy home because of how they act and the light they have. She has 2 daughters, Norah and Jane.
So here is a picture of my whole family:
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