I still have not figured out what I want to be-Part 2
As I lay in bed, trying in vain to sleep, I kept thinking about all this figuring out what I wanted to be stuff. Then I remembered the teacher asking us kids, in 3rd grade, what we wanted to be when we grew up. 🤔
All the girls wanted to have some sort of professional career, but I had never had a good, stable family, and this is what I really wanted to have. So, I said I wanted to be one of two things. One, I answered to be like all the other girls, and that was a secretary, but the other was a stay-at-home mother with 6 kids. 🙂
Well, if you count the 4 grandchildren we adopted as babies, I did meet that goal. I have been a wife for life, a mother of six children. I have 6 grandchildren( in addition to the 4 we adopted), and I was a foster mother and daycare provider to high-risk/high needs babies. So, I guess I did know what I wanted to be when I grew up a very long time ago.🙂
Now I have to answer a new question. What kind of old lady am I going to be?🙃
Do I stop playing with fire, knowing my health is suffering, and change my diet and get more exercise, or do I throw caution to the wind and go out with a bang? Once again, I have already answered this question, because I promised the 4 grandchildren we adopted to stay here(in this world) for as long as I could to help them for as long as I can.🙂
Well, darn, it looks like I am out of decisions to make for now...🙃
Tomorrow is my first day back off sugar ( and all sweeteners), pastas, simple carbs of any sort, etc. I have 3 daughters who are doing this with me, too. I predict the next 3-4 days will not be especially pleasant, but it must be done. I have Familial Hypertriglyceridemia and Familial type 3 hyperlipoproteinemia, and I have spent 2 weeks throwing caution to the wind, eating sugar and junk food. It is time I get serious, again, about that promise I made.❤
