Hi friend. My name is Lauretta and I’m the girl behind the blog here at This Life Worth Loving.
I am a Southern California native transplanted in Oregon in 1994. I’m a single mom of 4 humans, who are all adults, Oma (Dutch for Grandma) to 4 amazing grand humans and 1 Furbaby, Bella; you can see them all in my Cast of Characters (on the right).
I’m now single, independent and loving life – with all the stress, mess and beauty!
Currently I’m working a full-time job, driving Lyft mostly full-time and have a couple side hustle businesses I’m working on while figuring out This (crazy, messy, sometimes depressing, beautiful) Life Worth Loving.
On the treasured little bit of time I actually have off, you could find me doing a variety of things I love including listening to music while Facebooking (yep, I made that a verb), working on my laptop (blogging, budgeting, or working on my businesses), and can also be found binge watching a few of my fave shows. I also love playing board games, card games, and dice with my family or playing SIMS4 on my PlayStation. In the fall I LOVE watching UO Ducks College Football! Of course, we can’t leave out traveling! Whether it’s a day or weekend trip somewhere local here in the Pacific Northwest, a short week-long road trip or cruise, or international travel, I’m ALL about it!
Additional tidbits:
I am a coffee addict.
I HATE the rain.
I’ve long wanted to learn Spanish and Sign Language and I’m currently working on both, a little at a time.
There’s so much more, but I hope you enjoyed learning a little about who I am.
about the blog
I started my journey into blogging in 2013 creating This Life Worth Loving in 2019 and writing on and off until recently, I plan to write a lot more regularly. My blog writing style has changed over the years as I develop and create and decide the direction I want to go.
I’ve gone from a mom-diary style blog, started to lean towards organization, cleaning and finances, to travel. For a short while I ventured into Van Life while I prepared to live my life on the road and share it with you, but my van got totaled and, again, my direction changed.
It’s taken me a year to overcome that loss and finally take the step to start writing again. I’ve thought about the direction I should take and have decided this is basically just going to be an online diary of my journey to face challenges, overcome obstacles, win small victories, and all that’s involved in creating This Life Worth Loving.
I’m hoping in following my journey with all its UPS and DOWNS, that others may find some inspiration, amusement, companionship, or just solace that they are not alone in everything that life throws at us.
So, grab a cup of coffee (I have mentioned that I LOVE coffee, haven’t I?) or tea, and let’s visit!
