Friends are a reflection of ME!

Well, most of my friends know, that whirlwind relationship with Rob was just that... a whirlwind.  It ended pretty bitterly.  However, my heart was not terribly broken, just irritated.  I mended pretty quickly and am on to bigger and MUCH BETTER things.  Just wanted to get that out there.  I gotta say, if it wasn't for my friends, I would be in a pretty deep and dark place in my life.  But thanks to them for always keeping me grounded and enabling me to show them how much I appreciate them.  God love em  and protect em all!

So back to being single, still looking for stable employment (hopefully not for long) and still loving my life back in my hometown with my friends.  :)

I have taken on a walking regimen which always takes me back in time to the old days of my youth, walking around the old neighborhoods.  It feels good to walk, I know it is good for my health and as long as my back, legs and feet hold out, I will keep doing it!  I mostly go out with my son, he rides his bike around me.  But on occasion, I will venture out by myself.  I do it mostly because I want him to know the area that I grew up in.  I want him to be comfortable here, feel safe and feel like this is his hometown too.  He is old enough to start hanging out with his friends, without mom around.  So my hopes of getting him out riding his bike, is he will run into some friends and go off and explore and have some sort of a social life like I use to.

I'm not saying my childhood was all that great, but I looked so forward to the days of walking around town and hanging with my friends.  No one realized how important that really was to me.  I had a pretty crappy home life, so being around friends got me thru some tough times.  Even to this day, when things get really down for me, I feel like I can still turn to my friends for help, guidance and just someone to listen to me whine about my life.  And they know I do the same for them.  :)

My son doesn't experience the trauma that I did as a child. He never has and never will.  I am so grateful for that.  I worked hard to make sure he didn't grow up like I did. And I am PROUD of this!

Now it is time for him to get out and make his own memories with his own friends.  I'm both terrified and eager for this to happen.  He needs his own set of friends to reflect on him.