First time for everything

I never thought I'd be doing this. Blogging, that is. But here I am, 40-something and creating my own space. And I will literally be creating my own space in a couple of short months when my husband leaves for Iraq. That's the purpose of this space: to share my thoughts and feelings on being alone for a full year. The full year officially starts on December 10, 2007, but physical separation will actually begin January 2, 2008.

In the meantime, I am changing the rest of my world as well. I resigned as a school counselor (been doing it in various formats for the past 15 years) in order to be a mom (only took 15 years to decide to finally go there). The resignation part went through, but the mom part has not, and will be on hold until the man of my dreams returns from the desert. I always said I couldn't see myself being a school counselor for 30 + years, and I feel strongly that it's time for a change. So, now I have a bright clean whiteboard on which to write the next phase of my life, on which, I know will be motherhood at some point. But as to the money earning part, that's another story. A story that I will be writing as I go along, so I'll keep you updated as I create (make up, dream, fall flat on my face, and get up again)

So that's it. My first posting. Not so bad.