My first time at trying this new technology.

What is blogging?  Why do people blog?

I am a 48 year old mom.  I decided to give this a try because people suggested it as something to entertain me.  Here is a short history about me.  I have three children.  The oldest has a full-time job after graduating from college.  She just moved out now into an apartment.  My middle child just finished two years at a community college and is leaving soon for a four-year college three hours away.  My youngest is a senior in high school.  My husband works full-time and does travel.  When I was eight months pregnant with my oldest, I was laid off from work at at large food company.  With the advice of my dad, I stayed home and finished my college education.  This allowed my husband to work long hours and travel to get a income that kept us surviving on his income.  I did little jobs to help out when needed.  We had two more children after that and he went through a few employers.  When my youngest was a year and a half, I went to work at a retail store during the holidays.  When that was over, they offered me a permanent position.  Since I could work only on the weekends and avoid daycare, I took it.  I did many different positions at that store until the recession hit.  I needed to find work somewhere else.  I found it at another retail store for during the week and stayed at the first one on the weekends.  Back to the present, I left my week job because a doctor told my mom that she needed a MRI to see if she had bone cancer and if she needed hip replacement surgery.  My mom is 87 years old, is a widow and lives alone in her house.  I have one brother and we both live near her but I am the closest to her.  My mom had cancer twenty years ago and they told her then that if she developed cancer again, she didn't have any treatment options because of what they were going to use this time to kill all of the cancer.  So, I left that job, took my mom to the follow-up appointment to hear that there is no cancer and no surgery.  She tore a muscle near her hip.  The following week is summer break and two of my children are home.  One has a part-time job and the other doesn't.  Summer's are usually busy trying to keep them entertained, doing household chores and having enough food in the house.  I knew this summer would be a little bit busier then others.  My oldest moved out.  That was a two week process with her.  My niece got married and that was the first for my family.  My youngest was getting to take her driver's test and my mother-in-law was very ill.  In addition, my youngest and I own a horse.  That in itself takes a lot of time.  Our horse is boarded at a stable so there is extra time in driving over there and back home.  Then if the horse is sick you are there every day.  We are members of two saddle clubs and my daughter shows.

It is now the end of summer and the school year is here.  I have applied at a few places and no phone calls.  I am going to try to do temporary agencies but with my only experience for the past fifteen years being retail I am not confident I will get anything for office work.  It is said that I spend five years in college to get a degree that I can't use because it is more than twenty years old.  At least I have my job on the weekends and the volunteer work I do for the saddle clubs.  I am hoping this blogging will keep my mind engaged and I will not become bored.  In addition, I hope with what I write about, others will either enjoy reading or learn from it.  Ta ta, for now.