Celebrate being me....

Happy Birthday!

    I have never announced my birthday to the world before but today that is about to change. My blog is about showing up for myself so today I am here for me and it is a happy day.

    I was born forty nine years ago in Fort Bragg North Carolina. I already had a sister who was four days less then a year older waiting for me. My mother was a stay at home mom and my father was in the Military. I lived two years in Fort Bragg before moving to Cleveland Ohio where my mother was from. We stayed there while my father was in Vietnam and other areas. We lived there somewhere around seven to nine years (memory a little fuzzy) then moved to Germany for six months. (my sister had been born in Germany). It was six months because after arriving the Army realized my father was closer to retiring (he was ten years older then my mother)  so they sent us back to a military town called Fayetteville North Carolina. That is where I spent the remainder ( and where my mother and sister still live) of my years until I was twenty one, married and moved to Charlotte North Carolina. That marriage lasted about four years but we had a beautiful son who is about to turn twenty seven. I later married a man and have been married for nineteen years. We had two beautiful children as well. But that marriage is now dissolving. But I am happier then I have ever been. I have everything I could ever want (except the love of a good man).  My children are happy and healthy. I have been able to be with them in their daily lives,  homeschooling them and observing our everyday present moments together. I have family and friends who love and care about me. And I am finally showing up for myself. It feels good, Life is good..........

    So -  HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me!