Getting to Know You More - August 6

[Ann]

What were you doing half your life ago? If your age doesn't happen to be an even number, you'll have to fudge a little.

[dchurchi]

I Had just graduated college and trying to figure out

what the heck I was going to do with the rest of my

life

[Muriel]

Living in Norman, OK and getting ready to move to Madison, WI.

Muriel

[Ann]

I was a stay-at-home mom to three little boys, ages 7,6 and 1. Dennis and I were definitely struggling financially, due to the fact that we both felt it very important that I stayed home until all three boys were in school. But, even though we were poor, by most standards, we were so rich because of our great little family and all of the love we had. Both my parents were still living and life was really good.

[shineladysue]

I was an extremely happy stay at home mom with a 7 year old and not long after I was expecting my second child. Mike and I had the perfect marriage. They were very good days. We were enjoying life and dreaming of what our retirement years would be like. Little did we know...

Sue

[Shelley (MLC)]

I was 24, working as a Pediatric nurse in Upstate NY. My Husband and I had just started dating. Shelley

[ginnyde]

I was divorced with two young children. I was managing a computer software bureau. Software bureaus are now in the Smithsonian.

[Welthy]

I was 25, had just given birth to our twins, and our oldest would be starting school in the fall. My mother had also been diagnosed with late stage ovarian cancer right before I had the twins. Good times mixed with bad. Such is life...

[Ry]

I was newly married and substitute teaching, just starting to think about having a family. We had just moved to Michigan from Pennsylvania so I was back closer to my parents.

[Maryanne]

Just bought our new home which if it was not re-mortaged would have been paid off in Oct or this year.

Maryanne

[sharyn]

I was 24 years old and in the midst of a very unhappy marriage... better days were ahead!!!

[Larry]

I was 33 and working a Pepsi Cola Route and happily married even tho we must of made alot of people think we fought and made up alot as we had 8 kid's by then....

[J.C.]

Five months and I'll be eighty...

so at forty had been married

eight years, very happy and we

decided that Mike would be happy

as a farmer and bought our first

beef farm and we kept it till

1989, those were beautiful years.

Jackie

[Kaffie]

In my mid twenties, happily married to my high school sweetheart.

A stay at home mom with two little boys and totally innocent to the harsh side of life

[Debi]

Newly divorced mother with a 3 year old daughter. Driving a taxi and dispatching, living paycheck to paycheck to say the least. Fresh out of rehab and trying to stay sober a year before the Betty Ford clinic opened and made sobriety popular.

[Nova]

I was 23, had 2 beautiful children, and was married to a maniac -- who was determined to "do me in" before I reached the ripe old age of 24!!!!

I would NOT want to go back in time and re-live that!

Give me TODAY! I'm so blessed now!

Debi, Good for you! Harry has been a member of AA & NA for many, many years. You guys did it! Congrats!

P.S. Is Freddie a Chihuahua? He's adorable!

We have one. She's almost totally deaf, and getting cataracts on her eyes. She's "Older the Moses", but we love her to piece's! She's Harry's "Couch Buddy"! Her name is Munchkin!

[kamataca]

Fun question--Larry, you crack me up!

I was a college student. Young enough to think I knew everything, but old enough to know better than to do a lot of the stupid stuff I survived. It was stressful at times (I was paying my own way though college and carrying a full load), but those were good times. I wouldn't trade it for the life I have now, but I managed to have fun at the time.

Kelly

[lilyjohn]

I was almost 32 and a full time stay at home mom. I was also gardening, feeding calves and pigs and chickens and rabbits. I lived in Louisiana very far from my family (parents, siblings and their off spring)and was not very happy. Money was always tight and the heat and humidity made me even more miserable. We didn't get our first air conditioner until a few years later.

Still I had my chidren home with me so I guess I have to say in many ways life was good.

[RandyW]

Sailing around the world.. Courtesy of the US NAVY!!!!!!