What is my blog about: Life Real Talk

The weekend is well into swing and it is Sunday night.  My favorite day of the week has always been Mondays.  I am looking forward to this Monday morning which is the first day of school for my five-year old. 

I have mixed emotions about her leaving for a full day of kindergarten but after experiencing the brother and sister sibling rivalry all summer long I am ready.  I am ready to move on to my next goal and continue pursuing the adventures that I have already started.

This year I have made a choice to take my own life back and no it wasn’t my new years resolution.  My new years resolution was to quit smoking.  I quit smoking on March 24, 2012.  The only reason I quit my habit was because I was tired of the cigarette having control over me.  Smoking is a terrible habit but it is enormously painful to quit smoking. 

I have always been a person who puts everyone else’s needs first.  I have been living for the needs of others instead of living for myself.  When someone would ask me a question I would always reply in the way that I knew they wanted me to.  I felt like a robot almost as if I was only taking a breath when someone would tell me too.

After adopting my own grandchildren in December of last year I decided my life needed a major reconstruction.   I was tired of asking myself what am I going to be when I am allowed to grow up.  I missed the empty nester bus after raising four young adults because I took on a second round of children.  To make changes in my life I would have to dig deep down within my soul and I would have to realize that I was the only person in charge of making my life change. No one could help me except the man upstairs. 

I needed to make a decision and I knew complaining about my life wouldn’t lead me anywhere.  I was tired of giving my inner self repeated excuses of why I couldn’t or shouldn’t do something.  To make a monumental life change I would have to pull my inner strength together and throw my feet into the fire while rasing both of my adopted children under the age of five.  I knew the easy street choice also.  I could just accept the fact that when I die my head stone could read, “Here lay’s a mother who gave her life to motherhood.”  I wanted more.  

So here I am taking new steps in my life and the best part is I know I am not alone.  I have you my reader’s who are walking by my side as I step forward creating my new life.  When I decided to start blogging in March of this year I had no clue I would follow through with the project of writing a children’s book and to take it one step further by having it published.  I have always loved to write and talk to others.  One thing that makes me happy is making people smile even if it is only for a moment in time.

My blog is about real talk.  You don’t have to put your make up on to read my blog.  I don’t pretend and sugar coat anything in my life.  We all walk in the same shoes, it is only our life paths are different.