Snippets & Bits

I thought I should put something here besides “This is an example of a WordPress page”.

I grew up in the sixties but probably should have slowed that down a little bit. What can I say? I wore my hair long and straight, loved bell bottom jeans and was proud to wear my brothers army jackets while criticizing the Vietnam War!

That ended abruptly when I was just out of high school and got married in 1971. That’s what you did then if you were female especially if you were from a small town and had never been to the big city. College was for the kids on the other side of the tracks! I wanted to be a nurse even then but it wasn’t in the cards at the time. Was I naive? You betcha!

Three boys and a divorce later and I’m working as many hours as I can find to keep them fed. Friend of the Court wasn’t quite so helpful back then.

Along comes my second husband who I fell madly in love with. He played a part of my life for a long time. I had another son by him and that makes four.

I had tried to go back to school as they were growing up a few times. Sometimes feeding them got in the way… It was a choice and ya know they have to eat!

Some twenty years later I finally made it. I had my nursing degree. (Didn’t have the husband because he died the same year. Long story and I won’t go into it here.)

I went to work in the ER shortly after and that was an education in itself. For a small town, naive girl it was quite a shock to the system. Let’s just say that I expected more out of the kids when I realized common sense didn’t just grow on trees!

The teenage years were another education. Somehow I think my Mom must have been chuckling while I was pulling my hair out. That kind of ended abruptly too when they all moved out and left me with an empty nest.

I looked around and thought, “What the hell!” LOL

Tune in later for the rest of the story…