Who are the Joneses?

A few weeks have gone by since I've blogged.  Our family is in the midst of some big decisions and when we have seasons like this God directs me to step away from social media and being online too much. I believe it's because He knows how much influence looking at what everyone else is doing has on our decisions.

I'm sure there are a million blog posts out there about "keeping up with the Jones family" and encouraging us not to compare.  But I want to take it a step further and ask "Who are the Joneses?  And has anyone ever officially met them or is it some made up family?"

We all know we shouldn't covet things our neighbors own but do we stop to consider we shouldn't covet their decisions too?  This is something the Lord has really been challenging me on lately as He is calling me and my family to make decisions that are not in alignment with the "Joneses".

Here's a few "outside of the Joneses moments" we've shared in our 10 married years:

• Getting married while still in college(huge social no-no....you need a career first to be married, right??")
• Having baby #1 while still in college(she was at my college graduation)
• Moving to Texas for my husband to attend chiropractic school(life changing decision for us)
• Having another baby while husband was in school(don't you know the "wise" thing would be to wait to have more kids when he is finished with school?!)
• Buying a practice that had been around for 28 years(don't you know buying a practice almost never works out?!)
• Having 2 VBACS(vaginal births after cesearean).  Don't you know all the risks involved there?
• Me starting this blog....like anyone is really reading?!