On a scorching hot July day in 1985 I am born, the first child in my family, on a military base, with a serious cone head, and with a bruised and blotchy red face.... I didn't exactly fit through the birth canal. So, after being stuck in the doorway all day I was finally rushed out the 'emergency exit.' The computer game Tetris is released. The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes debuts in 35 newspapers.
In 1988 I get a baby sister. My Dad spends alot of time jumping out of airplanes. NASA resumes space shuttle flights for the first time since the Challenger disaster.
In 1992 I return home from a typical day of first grade and astonish my mother by reading a book to her. A love was born. I read 186 books between then and the end of the school year. Mrs. Womack game me a copy of 'The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin' to commemorate my first year of reading. Chicago flooded. U.S. vice president Dan Quayle misspelled potato at a spelling bee for children. I get a baby brother...Mommy calls him her 'war baby.'
In 1993 I move to Mississippi, and then later in the school year to different state, one known for its fried chicken, famous college basketball team, and blue grass. I spend a whole week of recess standing with the kids who lost recess privileges because I am new to the school and to shy to go play and make friends. We get record amounts of snow and my parents who are natives to upstate New York make an igloo... In the south! I make friends. The world wide web is born.
In 1999 I join a creative writing club at the prodding of my language arts teacher and am pleased as pickles to earn the highest possible score on my portfolio. I get my first boyfriend & dance my first slow dance. Y2K becomes a buzz word. I meet Jesus Christ at church camp and accept him as my personal Savior.
In the summer of 2000 I meet my future hubby during a church camp. We start dating, date all summer long and then I break up with him at the start of the school year to go back with aforementioned 'first boyfriend.' I get my first kiss. First boyfriend is totally not worth it, he drops me like a sack of rotten potatoes, and my future hubby professes his undying love for me not matter what. I totally reject him and move on. I start running track and cross country, and take a photojournalism class. Y2K scare is nothing but a fluke, and the first resident crew moves into the international space station.
Spring of 2001 I realize I like the kind of person my future hubby is, there is something different about him I don't see in other boys and so after months of being just friends I agree to be his girlfriend. Future hubby tries to kiss me on my birthday in July but gets rejected. I submit photos to my school's newspaper even though I am not old enough to be on staff yet. Fall of 2001 I join the school newspaper staff and become the only first year newsie to get an editor position. I am psyched to be the photography editor. George W. Bush becomes the 43rd president of the United States. The Twin Towers fall while I am taking a test surrounded by military personnel. Google is awarded a patent.
Spring of 2002 after a whole year of dating my future hubby finally tries to kiss me again, with slightly better success this time. My future hubby joins the military. A solar eclipse occurs and The Queen Mother dies in her sleep.
In 2003 I graduate from High School, get my first job at a News Bureau, start college, and marry my hubby after a whirlwind engagement. My faith is seriously rocked by my college professors. Martha Stewart goes to jail and a lunar eclipse occurs.
In 2004 I find out I'm going to be a Mommy, move to a bigger apartment, my hubby gets shipped to Iraq, I move back in with my parents in order to adjust to 'everything', vote in my very first election, move into a rental house just in the nick of time to enjoy my hubby's scheduled two week leave during which we celebrate our first baby's birth, our first anniversary, and Christmas. Facebook is founded. The Boston Red Sox win the world series.
In 2005 I take 20 hours in one semester, my Father-In-Law's cancer returns, my hubby is rushed home from Iraq on emergency leave two months early, and his father proves his doctor's wrong by living beyond the three months he was given. YouTube goes online.
In 2006 our family grows with the birth of our second born. My hubby returns to school, earns a 4.0 GPA during his second quarter, then drops out and surrenders to the ministry days before his father meets Jesus and is healed of his cancer forever. I take a bible course that teaches biblical creation and contrasts it with the evolution theory, includes real scientific evidence, I am WOWED. Google buys YouTube.
In 2008 I click online to a blog of a friend from church who is having her third baby. Countless refreshing waiting for the super big news leads me to boredom and I click through strangers blogs snooping into everyone's business and an addiction is born. I find amazing people like Angie Smith, and then MckMamma. I start not me-ing and enjoy meeting cyber friends (who technically aren't friends at all since no one really knows me) but this stay at home Mom is satisfied with some resemblance to friendship, encouraged, refreshed, spiritually challenged, and so much more. THANK YOU!!!!
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