This has been quite a year. The most noticeable thing is I am a smaller person, meaning size about 25 lbs. I have worked very hard and rid myself of old hurts and beliefs. For almost a life time I thought there was something wrong with me and if I tried harder no one would notice. But that is not true. Life happens and you have to do some very hard stuff but it doesn't mean you are loved less. Last year at this time, my desire was that I wanted my health back and I wanted to be nifty at sixty. I knew I was going to be 60 years old so in January I started to eat better and I wanted to develop habit for eating that would last me the rest of my life. I was done with emotional eating. I started looking at those things that caused me to turn to a cookie instead a yummy salad or sandwich; I was finished with cleaning my plate and having 2 of everything. I didn't like my job and it took so much gas to get there but, didn't have a place to jump to. In March I came down with the shingles Boy was I sick!!! It was on my face and it like having fever blusters all over you. It hurts so bad. My Daughters sprang into action and helped heal me. They were wonderful. They helped me want to live again. I learned about family and those who say they care but their actions are ones of hollow comments. In April I was free of my no end job and the shingles. I joint a "women on weights" class with my daughter Janel 2 days a week and decided that I was worth it to see a doctor that could help me get my weight down and health back. I felt myself becoming strong in my body, mind and soul. I didn't just want to live, I want to thrive!! In the course of the year I filed bankrupty, let my house go (even thought we are still living in it, which is a miracle) found out I can save myself and that Lord is aware of me and guide me with everything. In August I came across a job site for the company called Ultradent and the spirit told me that I need to walk in my resume. It was a part time job but I knew it would bring something more to me and it was very close to my home. I was hired and I am full time and I am doing what I have done all my life plan events!!! I work with some wonderful people that make getting up and going to work a lot easier. I miss a clean house, staying up on the laundry, my 11 o'clock nap, being around my grandkids and sleepovers. It has strengthen my confidence giving me money to pay bills and save for a rainy day. This year has proving to me that I can live without my twin sister and I don't have to invest time into things that don't matter. I learned a lot when I was young from my husband but he has a harder time learning from me now that we are older. I had the experience to watch my sons interact with their wives and realize just because I don't see them very often and their families spend more time with their wives families that I haven't had a influence upon them. They are married to really good women and they have married women more like their mother than they care to know. This year my daughters have kept me sane. They are talented and wise be on their years. Janel has been like a star guiding me along sometime a very dark and lonely path. She is full of light and very willing gives it to anyone who comes in contact with her. She was a child the Lord gifted to me that has given me peace. Even during those years of adolences we had our storms but, when we took the time to be together, even then there was peace and a easiness about being with her. She is ever learning and a joy to talk to, and be with, I love you, Janel. My Amy has kept me present by including me in her creations. She is so talented and has an eye of an artist. She is so kind and give so much of herself in helping others, she has truly been a savior to me. She has fed my body and mind. Nursed me back to health given me hope. Her presents has been felt not only by me but my friends and that has been going on since she was a teenage girl. I have never worried about Amy's intentions. She is good to the bone. I love you, Amy. I just want to say thank you to both of my beautiful daughters, you are women of truth and goodness and I am so lucky.
This Mom's Gonna Snap!
12 years ago
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Oh thank you! You having given just as much to me. It is so nice to have a friendship with reciprocity. It will just keep getting better! I Love You,too.
Janel
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