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Five Things | Pad Patter 9.17.15

well, this was actually pretty hard!

---- I have a great amount of respect for my own strength that I have survived the odds of cancer twice and NEVER thought I wouldn't - It wasn't an option in my mind, I must have superpowers ♥ [:]

---- Love that I have curves, boobs and baby got back! (and so does my man - brownchickenbrowncow
:whip:cornfused :laundrynaughty

---- I put 3 amazing generous warm loving funny conscientious people out in the world and they are everything I ever thought they would be.
:heartslub Against all odds that I thought I was not going to be good at being a Mother (did not have a good example).

---- That I am still in love and have a wonderfully silly best friend :flirty relationship with my husband of 20+ years.

---- I am very real, a true Southern woman with a side of snarky. Don't ask me or I will tell you. I admire honesty in others, so I appreciate that I grew comfortable to admit I am pretty much what you see is what you get. This is me, it just is what it is.
 
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These are all fabulous. You ladies are amazing!!!

Ugh... me... I don't like any of the physical stuff. LOL.

1. I am an empath. Totally.

2. I am a lifelong learner. I can never be "bored" because there are so many things that interest me.

3. I am a good grand-daughter. My grandma helped me when I was young and was always there for me. Now I am there for her and do whatever has to be done. She is 95 and lives on her own, and I am her advocate and help out when she needs me.

4. I can go into most complex situation or evaluate multi-level issues and quickly figure out the easiest way to do something... or where changes need to be made to make things more efficient.

5. I've overcome a legacy... at least that is how my best friend put it. I'm the first in my family to graduate college and have two Master degrees when no one thought I would. My home life was kind of a nightmare when I was growing up. My parents divorced, and my dad was a drug addict who constantly put my brother and I into dangerous situations. He had some unaddressed mental health issues stemming from an abusive home when he was young. My mom didn't want to listen to what my dad was allowing or believe the things I was telling her because it wasn't convenient for her to do so. She had come from an extremely abusive home as well and was adopted out at age 6. She isn't the most stable person, so she also put us in tons of not-so-good situations, and we were super poor. My mom didn't see the need for college. My biological grandmother was a prostitute... as was my biological great-grandma. My mom never encouraged me to go to school, but the grandma (mentioned above) who adopted my mom always talked about college even though she hadn't gone either. There were a lot of times my mom didn't even give me the tools I needed to complete assignments when I was in elementary school. But deep down, I knew I was going to go to college. Then I was raped and ended up pregnant in high school, but that didn't deter my college dreams either. I talked to teachers and counselors about how to make it through my senior year, and everyone encouraged me to quit school or to "take typing" because I would never go to college and should just have a skill with which to support myself. It was super hard to fight through all-day morning sickness, work part-time, and graduate 7 months pregnant, but I did it and still stayed on the honor roll. After my daughter was born, I enrolled in community college. My mom would bail on babysitting, and I had to start and quit, start and quit, start and quit so many times, I thought I would never get through. I even had an employer fire me because I was going to school (even though it didn't impact my work). At one point, it was nearly a ten-year break from school and the requirements had changed so I ended up having to take additional classes. But I went back and finished my AA in the summer of 2007, finished my BA in 2008 (and had a fight with another supervisor over the fact I was in school), started my MFA in 2009, and just finished my M.Ed. at the end of July... 27 years after graduating high school. :giggle
 
Wow, Kimberlee. Just wow. You are an accomplishment yourself - you have come so far, and worked so far. Be so proud of yourself!
 
Wow! Kimberlee! That is an amazing story of perseverance and triumph! Thank you so much for sharing that! It's a huge deal to graduate from college for anyone, but to have to work for that long to achieve your goal is simply amazing!
 
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