I’m a Midwest girl longing to get out of the rat race and back into the country. I’m a wife, a mother, a teacher, a student, a chef, a nurse, a physiologist. I’m a saint and I’m a sinner. I’m a witch and I’m a…well, you know there are those days! LOL I’m a friend, I’m a sister. I’m a daughter. I’m a lover. I’m loyal to my family and friends, but when you need to hear it straight I speak the truth. You’ll forgive me eventually!

I love food; especially, bread, cheese and chocolate. I can’t get enough of it. I love to celebrate with it, drown my sorrows in it, share it or keep it all to myself. I love making things. I love sharing dinners with my family. I love getting up every morning and sending my husband and son off to work and school with a hot meal in their bellies and lunch in their hands.

I’m not fond of exercising, but I don’t hate it. I have to get into the routine of it. I don’t find journaling hard. I can be on the OCD side, so having everything neat and orderly is fun for me. I like to chart and plan. I love the internet so much because it helps me do this all the time for everything.

But I know that this weight must go. I have high blood pressure and a thyroid that is way out of balance. So diet, diet, diet; I must! I want to enjoy my later years with my husband and our children. All of the bread, chocolate and cheese in the world is not worth missing out on their lives. I want to go out on mission trips with our church, but I want to be healthy.

So that’s me and that’s why I’ve decided to change my life.