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About aderswithkids
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aderswithkids
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Richfield, UT, USA
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May 09 '07
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I'm a busy mother of three beautiful children returning to school to become a nurse.
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About aderswithkids
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I was born in Rexburg, Idaho in 1974. I was raised on a farm with an orchard, a large garden to tend, pigs, a cow, sheep, goats, a horse, a donkey, turkeys, chickens, peacocks, and (the most difficult to deal with) honey bees.
I spent my days dodging stingers, feeding week, lovable baby lambs, pulling stubborn weeds, and picking sweet apples. On school days I walked two miles both ways to the bus stop (only one way uphill, believe it or not).
One of my cherished memories is of feeding the baby lambs and having my heart broken over and over as they would give up and die in my arms. I would plead with them in their weakened state to just drink their milk and live because I loved them. Sometimes it worked and my tears turned to smiles as their little tails wagged and their little tummies filled.
Another fond memory was of my first experience "running away from home". I was feeling particularly unappreciated as a six-year-old in a family with nine siblings. I was sure no-one would even notice me missing when I found an empty gallon ice cream bucket and filled it with the only food I could think of, apples from our orchard. After I filled my little bucket, I marched through the trees imagining my family pining for my loss after a long and futile search. I planned a long, lonely life sitting on my bucket in the shade of a tree with only apples to eat. The day grew old and the shadows long, and I really needed more than just apples. That is when I realized no-one really cared and I might as well just go home and get something better to eat.
As I look back on my life, I realize that it has been quite a bit more complicated than my six-year-old self imagined it. I followed the lead of those around me in going through the public school system with all of its ups and downs. In 1992, I graduated from high school in American Falls, Idaho, and began college a week later. I was going to be the first in my family to get a college degree. I had worked hard to get there by keeping my nose in the books all through my school years and was thrilled to get a full-ride scholarship to BYU-Idaho.
At this point, my life changed drastically; I met my husband. We had a whirl-wind romance and decided to be married quickly and be on our way. I got pregnant with my first child immediately after we were married and was so sick that I had to quit college, which was the last thing I wanted to do. It was such a sacrifice to give up that scholarship and move on.
The last 14 years have been so difficult. I often want to just pack a bucket of apples and just hide out under a tree. The only thing is I now have three beautiful daughters who need to know they are appreciated and loved. My husband and I are now separated and I have an even greater responsibility to make sure they know that if they were to leave I would search for them and bring them back where it is safe and warm and where there are more than just apples to eat.
Now that I have a family of my own and no man in my home to help me take care of it, I have to provide for my girls and make ends meet. I am getting back into the college life with books but no partying. All of my spare time is spent trying to ensure that my daughters are happy and safe. I strive to guide them so that their moments of respite from the world are more along the lines of sitting under a tree, eating apples, than sitting in a friend's home doing drugs, as too often ends up being the case with even early teens these days.
I realize now that having my days filled with nursing little lambs, running from stinging bees and picking apples from trees, was a good thing. I know how hard farm life is. I vowed I would never marry a farmer because of all the long, hard, fruitless hours that bring nothing but dirt and grimy clothes into the house. That is why I decided to get an education and work away from the farm as a nurse. Due to the needs of my family now, I work to finally finish what I started before getting married. My education is what I am about now, that and making sure my daughters have some fond memories to look back on when they are grown and have families of their own.
I know my life hasn't been easy. I strive to learn to do things I must re-do even better. I strive to learn from example and feedback others give in order to get things done right the first time. That way, I can put the unpleasant things behind me and enjoy relaxing when my tasks are done. For example, I have applied myself to writing this biography with full purpose so that I can now go and relax with my girls for the evening.
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