And then there was a week....

One year ago this week the kids and I embarked on a new journey, our journey of 4. A journey that I was aprehensive about in all honesty, I wondered about my patience level, my abilities to work full time, my abilites to be a single parent to 3 kiddos who at the time were on the brink of one and two. I was down right scared-and alot was about my lay on my shoulders. I had done deployments, being a wife without her husband, but I had yet to be mommy and 3 kids alone. I took this new endevour with eagerness, and a whole hell of alot of determination! Now as I sit here listening to my trio now on the brink of 3 and 2 I am in amazement. Amazed that I am literally typing on an upside down plastic bin as my "table" while sitting on the floor with no furniture as we prepare to move to bigger places and awesome new advetnures about to happen! This year has been an emotional one to say the least, spending our Christmas alone last year taught me to lean on my kids as they were/are my life, my love, my reason for always striving to be a better version of myself, for them, for me, for my family. I was sick for most of this year, sick in my body which led to sickness in my heart because I could not be the mommy I wanted to be and had to lean on alot of people to include Jay and Marci, Don and Kathy, my parents, and Jason's mom Debbie-they were all saviors more times than I can count, not to mention my wonderful friends and work people who supported me in many ways-through hospital stays, surgeries, recovering,getting better...then regressing and so forth. Am I still sick? Yes and No...Do I feel good? Yes and No...But this journey is teaching me alot, I use that in present tense because it is still ever evolving, I will always at some point be a single mommy again and will need to learn to adapt and overcome. This health lifestyle of the Gluten Free/Celiac Disease/Thyroid stuff will always be part of me and who I am. I have learned so much about myself through diet, exercise, eating a different way, cooking a different way, so many different things in my life. The key word here is DIFFERENT-NEW-EXCITING Little family of 5 will take new and exciting turns and stay tuned! Love to you all-and thank you for listening, reading, commenting, and supporting. I appreciate more than you know! <3~S