IF

If you knew then what you know now, in your life what would you do different?   I would try harder at being a better mother.  I worked weird hours, hubby put my kids to bed (is a great daddy), I was always tired, lazy, probably could have read to them more, taught them more responsibility, LIKE cleaning, better health habbits...dont get me wrong I loved my kids and took good care of them, I just did too much for them,  

Don't get me wrong, I have no regrets, I love my life and my children and my hubby. But there are things I would do differently if I could.  The first would be wasting so much time being obese. I wish I had, had WLS sooner, like 10 years ago. I know that WLS wasn't as good back then, as it is right now, but I still feel like I wasted so much of my youth (20's and 30's) being obese and not doing the things I could of done. I let my obesity hold me back.  I also tell my girls (one will be 18 in May the other will be 16 in July) all the time to wait until they're in their 30's to have kids so that they can live a little before they have their children. I was married at 17, 1st baby at 18, second baby at 20. Hubby and I had a rocky start, starting out so young. We had to grow up as adults together and it wasn't easy. We struggled alot. I'm very grateful we are still together. He is such a wonderful man (wasn't always that way lol). I also wish I had spent more time with my grandfather before he died. He was my only positive male role model growing up and I loved him very much. ~dori~

If I could change something about my life I would have spent more time with my mother.  I hurt her very badly when I was 13 and the following years there was a distance between us that looking back I wish I could have had that time with her.  The rest of my life the good and the bad has brought me to where I am today and I would not want to change that.