Intro Test Blog

First, I must be honest and say I've never been very successful at maintaining a blog.  I've started and forgotten more blogs than I can recall, but as they say practice makes perfect and some day it will stick.

What drives me to keep trying?  Usually life changing events.  Like when my son's father left us 16 years ago, when I became totally frustrated trying to date as a single mom and decided to give it up, when I purchased my first money pit home, or when in a couple months my son is going to graduate high school and run off with the Army.

I have extremely mixed feelings about the whole thing.  My life has basically rotated around my son for the last 17 almost 18 years.  He was a busy kid growing up and I wouldn't change a thing.  But now, I'm looking at another major life change - being alone.  It's not like he's going to go to college and will be home on vacations in a few months.  Damn kid joined the Army on his 17th birthday.  The Army is just waiting for him to graduate high school so they can whisk him  away to basic training and whatever happens after that.

Well, I think this is long enough to play with how I desire my blog to look.  I'm sure it will always be evolving, but I have to start somewhere.