My Story

Hi! I'm Sherilyn Marks. Here is the story of my life (in a nutshell) for those of you who may not know me yet.

     I met my husband Jonathan when I was 17. He was my first sweetheart ever and I was his. <3
We got married almost 3 years later. Jonathan was in nursing school, and I was just working part-time jobs here and there to help him out some. Honestly at that point, I did not really have any career aspirations or any college degrees that I wanted to pursue. Ever since I was a little girl I have always wanted to be a mommy, stay at home and raise our kids, homeschool, and just be the person that my mom was to me.
     When we got married, in December of 2009, Jonathan still had 3 more semesters of nursing school. Before our wedding we had discussed many different topics, goals, and dreams. We both wanted kids, of course, but we decided to wait* until Jonathan was a little farther along in nursing school to avoid any complications with time, schedules, and deadlines. About 2-3 months into our marriage, we kinda changed our minds about that. We really wanted to start having kids of our own. Since that decision it has currently been (almost) exactly 4 years, and yeah.....still no kids, no babies, no pregnancies... nothing. The possibility of this happening never really occurred to me. I had not planned for this, and I wasn't ready or prepared for this journey.
     After it became {painfully} evident that we were not going to get pregnant very easily, I started to wonder if I should focus on something else like a career. One day, out of nowhere, Jonathan suggested that I go to cosmetology school. I have always loved to mess around with hair, nails, and makeup......so I decided to go! I enrolled in August of 2012 and graduated with highest honors in August of 2013. I have my license and have been working ever since at a salon here in town. I absolutely LOVE my job. I had kinda wondered that maybe God decided for us to wait for children because he had a plan for me to do something else in the meantime, but I didn't really know what that was. When I started school I thought: Ok, maybe this is it. I will try to use my career as a way to witness to clients, encourage women, and help girls see that true beauty is on the inside.
However, as good as that idea was, I don't think it was quite complete.....until now. The "encourage women" part? Yeah, that part of what I believe God is calling me to, just became evident to me about a week ago. That is where the idea for this blog started. I hope I can be an encouragement to you on your journey as I travel through mine!