So, like many people these days, I've thought about starting a blog. With what's happened to me over the past month I figure this is the perfect time to start since my entire life is up in the air right now.
I'll start with the basics. I am a white 48 year old stay at home mother to three teenage girls. I am Jewish and am fairly involved with my synagogue. I attend services fairly regularly and I try on a daily basis to be a good person. I live in Plano, Texas, just north of Dallas. I'm originally from California. I've been in Texas for 19 + years. I moved here pregnant with my oldest daughter. We moved here from San Diego (can you believe it?) because my husband's family was here and he was going to start working with his dad. I never thought I would end up in Texas, but wanted my child to have family around all the time, so it seemed like an easy decision.
We eventually had 3 girls and while my in laws were wonderful grandparents to my girls, they both passed away within a few years of each other. It has been 8 1/2 years since my girls have had their grandparents. We don't have other family here. Well, that's not true. My sister in law lives here, but my husband and her don't have a relationship.
I do have a large group of the most wonderful friends in the world here. I don't know how I would get by here without them. Although my family is very small, I miss them all the time. They all live in California. My parents have been divorced since I was 12 and they are both only children. Of my 4 grandparents, 1 was an only child, 1 had a brother who was institutionalized his entire life and never had children of his own, 1 had one brother who never married and never had a child of his own, and 1 appently had several siblings but was astrangled from them all. That leaves a total of no extended family! My Mom and her husband live in San Diego but they travel in an RV for several months of the year. My mom has a travel blog that she does while on the road. She does a really nice job. It's fun to follow where she is going with her stories and beautiful pictures. My Dad and his wife live in my hometown of Nevada City in Northern California. Both of my parents are very active and healthy and I miss them. My brother and his family also live in my hometown. He has two beautiful teenage girls. He and his wife are separated, but I think they get along pretty well. I miss them too.
I will stop now and take a break as there is so much to write, I don't know which way to begin.
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