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glitz/jo posted an update Friday, May 11, 2012, 12:48pm EDT, 12 years ago
leon, i loved your story of your finding the princess and living happily ever after! and darn, you two are really having some health problems right now. 🙁 great news on your nephew though.......it's been a long hard road for him, so glad to hear he is doing so well.
my expectations were that i would get married in my early 20's and have three kids, maybe a few more, and have a house, a car or two, a husband with a steady job and maybe a part-time job myself. it was what i saw all around me......except if you had a husband you didn't work outside the house yourself, but i was a rebel,i wanted at least a part time job plus raising the kids, LOL. i come from a long line of farmers, and ideally i would have wanted to marry a farmer, have kids, and work on the farm.........but i lived in the 'city' (Kansas City) and knew my chances of meeting the right farmer on the weekends i spent visiting relatives were slim.
the reality, i didn't get married until i was 42, and i had to have a hysterectomy in my early 30's so i didn't get the kids. the marriage didn't work out, but i found josef soon after and we have been together for over 20 years. i spent my life working with animals......mainly veteranians......and have 9 dogs of my own as well as occasionally baby-sitting one for someone. i am one of those old ladies who talks to her pets like they are kids.......but kids or dogs, they all respond well to love and rules......so in rescuing the dogs (and cats and birds) i got the toddlers i always wanted. and now, i work part time on a farm, i have my gardening, my 'kids', and a loving man. i am not only happy, i am content.