Starting Out

My life has been such a crazy roller coaster of events, some may have been from the choices I have made, but others were just because I was born. I just want to write down tidbits from my life to go back and read and remember. I don't care if I have followers, or people commenting. I just want to try and remember things, good, bad, or indifferent. I know my life has no meaning to strangers, so this blog is for me only. For sixteen years, I was beaten at least three times a week, usually more and people always ask me, remember when this happened or that happened? I always answer, no. I have been hit in the head way to many times and it has effected my memory and other things I have blocked out. I am finally happy now, I have been with a great man for five years who treats me like a person should be treated, I just never knew it before him. But before I get too deep into all of that, this is just my first blog entry to introduce myself so to speak. I am 40, I am a female, I have children who are grown up (yes I had them young). I am a sister, an aunt, a niece, a good friend to the few select people I let in my life and I am finally happy. This is going to be like a therapy session for me. I have read many blogs of strangers who say, its nice to write it down, get it out and move on. So, that's what I am going to try and attempt to do. Starting tomorrow, with my childhood...I thought it was normal, I thought everyone lived the way I did. Only when I got older, I realized, we were poor, beyond poverty level and everyone's parents were not alcholics.