I am Wendy Alves. I live together with my loving husband Greg Alves and our children in the lone star state of Texas. As a full time mom actively engaged in all my sons’ activities through their school, and a frequent volunteer for a variety of charitable foundations I stay very active on a day to day basis – but I always do my best to set aside time to relax and enjoy life as well.
This blog is a way for me to create a living record of my life, for my children and hopefully grandchildren, to someday look back and see what I really am all about. I want them to learn how important it is to ‘give back’ to their community, to become good citizens with strong character and a deep sense of doing what’s right for its own sake. Too often I find myself leading by example, and the busy day to day schedule we keep doesn’t always lend itself to the kind of heart to heart conversations I’d like to have as often as I wish we could have them – so with the Wendy Alves website, I can jot down some of the things they need to know while they are busy at baseball practice or camping with their friends and then they can come back when they have some quiet time to see what was on my mind or why I think some things are so important that they are worth writing down.
I hope you find this website as interesting and useful as they do, and I encourage everyone, even other moms who are as shy as I am, to step out of your comfort zone and give blogging a try. It really has proven to be a freeing experience and I believe in the long run it will do a lot to bring people together around common goals, shared values and a universal commitment to make the world a better place.