Years Gone By
It is hard to believe that 20 years have passed since I escaped graduated high school. Many study halls & algebra classes were spent daydreaming about what my life would look like as “an adult”. A beautiful house with a white picket fence, a handful of impeccably dressed and well-behaved children frolicking on the lush green grass while my hot handsome husband brings me a glass of lemonade while I blissfully lounge on the hammock during a warm spring day {ignoring the mound of laundry and dinner burning in the oven}. Ahh…this is the life! Okay, so maybe not reality, but it was a daydream! Most teen girls envision themselves married with a family, or at least I did. I certainly did not picture my life single and living on my own. Each of these pictures can be electrifyingly freeing or devastatingly hindering. Neither one is picture perfect. Neither one is better than the other one. As I look at my prese...