I am 52 years old and I have:
1. swam in the Atlantic, Pacific and the Mediterranean oceans.
2. moved to a state 8hours away from my parents after marrying.
3 lived in a beach community.
5. buried two of my children, a daughter and a son.
6. owned dogs, cats and mice as pets.
7. gambled and liked it.
8. worked with the poor and homeless
9. cooked for a men's shelter.
10. played viola in the junior- high school orchestra.
11. gone on religious retreat with Nuns
12. been to therapy
13. gotten drunk
14.shot a snake
15. surfed
16. stayed out all night (in my younger days)
17. took sewing lessons
19. saw two mountain lions walk across my neighbors yard.
20. worn green dresses in every wedding for which I was a bridesmaid.
21. turned grey at 35
22. fell asleep on the back of a motorcycle
#22! Seriously? Were you strapped in? That's craziness!!!
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No strap and pregnant with Matthew #4, my mother was not happy! We sold the motorcycle and bought a van after that!
ReplyDeleteI SO want to live at the beach! Lucky.
ReplyDeleteI went to that very beach (my parents have a house there, still do) in the picture every day of every summer for most of my younger life, until I married.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, how do you fall asleep on the back of a motorcycle?
ReplyDeleteI would do anything to live on the beach! I can only imagine how nice that would be.
Jackie, Honestly taking care of three stepchildren and pregnant (surprise) you can pretty much sleep anywhere!
ReplyDelete#5 - every mom's worse nightmare. So sorry.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, very sweet of you to say.
ReplyDeleteSo incredibly sorry about #5.
ReplyDeleteReally, 2 mountain lions? Wow! Now that's something I don't see here in Ohio.
Thanks for the kindness about the kids!
ReplyDeleteAnd the lions, yup my husband dragged me out of the shower to see them.
I have no idea how i missed this one. Some of your steps are unbelievable . Im terribly sorry for number 5. My mother in law lost her son when he was 19 years old, therefore my husband is the only child. Number 14, and 19 are wild!!!! Can you stil play viola? I can beat you at 21. I got my first grey hair at 16 and now I am all grey, thanks G-d for color dye. Now # 22 is just crazy!!!,
ReplyDeleteAh the dreaded #5 that will always be a part of me, a sadness but I've learned to live with it.
ReplyDeleteIt helps that I have a very close relationship with two of my three other kids, I do have one stepson, I love him very much unfortunately our relationship is strained. All this has helped add to my grays!
And country living can be wild with the animals, right!
Sadly I haven't picked up a Viola since graduation. It was fun though!
The motorcycle, I guess I'm just never going to live that down.I was just so tired, first trimester and all.