Dear Me, If yours were a chapter book life...

...it would read something like this:

{Chapter One}  The Early Years: A loving but firm childhood on the farm

{Chapter Two} The School Years: A confident, fun loving girl conquers grade school

 

{Chapter Three}  The Junior High Years:  Confidence waivers, a wobby walk through junior high

 

{Chapter Four}  The High School Years:  An insecure, anxiety-ridden adolescent experiences the highs and lows of high school

 

{Chapter Five}  Young Love: What I learned from my first loves

 

{Chapter Six}  Regrets: Mistakes made, friends lost, family hurt

 

{Chapter Seven} The College Years:  A confident, fun loving girl gets her groove back

 

{Chapter Eight} God's Mercies:  Meeting and marrying Jonathan

 

{Chapter Nine}  Godly Women:  The things my Granny and Mammaw taught me

 

{Chapter Ten}  No Idle Hands Here:  The Deere years, law school, and a legal career

{Chapter Eleven}  Married Without Children:  The first 9 years with Jonathan 

 

{Chapter Twelve} Everything I Never Knew I Was Missing: Becoming a mother

 

{Chapter Thirteen}  Family:   Becoming friends with the family chosen for you

 

{Chapter Fourteen}  Friends:  Becoming family with the friends chosen by you

 

{Chapter Fifteen}  Marriage:  "Doing Life" with a true partner

{Chapter Fifteen}  Self:  Remembering me, while being her (wife, momma, daughter, friend, attorney)