I met 'my friends' when I was playing in the drive way....

When I moved to Doumac I met some people I would soon feel were family.

When I was four, playing in my drive way, some kids jumped out at me from our tall grass on our front lawn. Lauren was 8, Lanning was 6 and Maela was 3 1/2. I spent my days and early evenings with them until I was 11. We went through a lot together and both our families delt with angry-yelling fathers and passive aggressive mothers. The two women grew to be close friends as well. I never had any brothers or sisters growing up and I truly felt like they were family. Throughout my childhood I referred to them as 'My friends', as if it was a name, not a label, and my parents always knew who I was talking about. Even though none of us hung out at school together, we spent our afternoons and weekends together running a muck on the street, at my house, or at their home.

How it began...

The very first memory I have, is waking up in my Grandma's cabin very early in the morning and sneaking out into the kitchen. There I found a trail of ants leading from the fruit bowl, down to a pile of ants on the floor with another trail leading to the back patio door. Each trail was made up of two rows, one row of aunts going to and one row of ants going from. I slowly examined the spectacle but quietly snuck back to bed and soon fell back asleep. The thing about my first memory, however, is that my mother swears it was a dream and that it never actually happened. She remembers me waking up that morning to tell her about it--but I remember seeing it with my own eyes. To this day, I can remember how the morning sun hit the floor through the many windows that faced out onto the porch. But, perhaps this memory is a dream, and proves just how vivid my dreams can be (which I will talk about at another time).

This is the secret online story of my life....

My Granny recently sent me the story of her life and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I then decided that it would be a great idea to write the story of my life, in detail, in case one day my children or my children's children wanted to know about their Granny's life.... So in each chapter I will try to cover an important happening in my life's story... I am only 25 so this story is meant to continue on along with each day of my life.

Enjoy.