Looking back....

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I don't know why but I was just sitting here and started thinking how different I was 10 years ago. I was a teenage "terror". I put my parents through hell. I think more hell than most teenagers. To look at my life then, you would have never thought that it would turn out good. I had a good childhood, my parents were together and married and all that. We went to private schools, both my parents worked, we took family vacations, all of that. My parents divorced when I was about 14 and that's where it all went bad. I knew I would most likely get away with more at my mom's house...I used to sneak out at night, take cigarettes out of her pack and smoke, I would drink her liquor when she was gone. Once I started driving, I got worse. I used to skip school all the time. I was always suspended for fighting or getting into it with the teachers. I was a fighter...like a brawler in high school. If someone looked at me wrong, I was ready to throw hands. I carried brass knuckles on me, vaseline so I could lube up my face if it was a fight that I knew was coming....I WAS the girl that your parents warned you about. I was a good kid when I was younger, but once my parents split, they were more focused on fighting with and being spiteful to each other to really deal with us. When I was 17, I stopped going to school all together. I did get a job, but I was still a wild child. I ended up pregnant at 17. I moved in with the baby's father and that lasted all of a year before we broke up and I never heard from him again. I moved back in with my mom and her and I couldn't get along for anything. When I was 19, I met my now husband. We had a child together a year later. He legally adopted my daughter the year after that. After 4 years he asked me to marry him. I got my GED, went to college and got my medical assisting degree. We had two more kids over the next 3 years. Last year we bought a house, he got his bachelor's degree in media arts and graphic design and he owns his own business, which is doing OK and he still works his 9-5. I just received my radiation certificate and next year I am planning to enroll to get my ultrasound technician degree. 10 years ago I never would have thought that everything would turn out the way it did. I am happily married, have four beautiful kids, and a wonderful husband who does any and everything to make sure that his family is taken care of. I'm so thankful for him and I thank God and count my blessings every day that somehow, my lost little soul was saved! =)