Day 1 - Why am I here???

I often wonder, "why am I here"? Let me introduce myself. I am not a writer. I am a middle aged woman (in my 50's), married to a wonderful man, a truck driver (7 years younger than I) of 13 years. I have 3 beautiful and talented girls from a previous marriage, all grown up and on their own. I have 6 grandkids and another due in May. Two of my girls live in Rochester, NY, the other in Ashland City, TN. I have lived in Columbus, OH since 2000.

When I was growing up I lived in the same house until I married; the house my parents built to raise their family. I am the middle child. My brother is 4 years older than I, a product of the 60's and my sister is 9 years younger.

My husband and I were doing ok until I got layed-off in 2008 from a job that I absolutley loved. I've lost jobs before for one reason or another but this one hit me extremely hard. I went through all those emotions of being hurt, mad and scared. Right after the lay-off I had ankle surgery to repair a defect in my bone. This was the second surgery in 2 years! As I was recovering I came up with this brainstorm of an idea that once I was able to walk we would sell everything we have, put our townhouse on the market and I would get my CDL and drive team with my husband and live out of our truck. You know, see the country and be with the man you love. Many husbands and wifes team drive now-a-days and make a pretty good income. So that's what I did in April of 2009. WHAT A CHALLENGE! I'll get into that next time.

What I hope to gain from this blogging venture is to dig deep down inside my soul and figure out just what the heck am I going to do with the rest of my life. I never saw myself this old! Now that I am on the downhill slope of life, what now?

Good night web-world!