I am about to turn 55 years old, just a month away, but when I look at my self in the mirror, I am kind of shocked! I am the same basic person I was when I was a 20 something year old. Sure I have matured some, I don't feel any different inside. But when I look in the mirror, I see this older woman, with some wrinkles,and a ton of gray hair, who is she? Where did the girl with thick curly black hair go? I know she is still here, but when I catch my reflection in a window, I am a little shocked!
I should back up a little bit, I am the wife of one man, for 33 years, we have 11 children, 8 boys and 3 girls. I have had a child die in my arms, have another child born prematurely and spend 2 months in intensive care, our house burn down and lose everything, had my husband have two heart attacks and almost die. I guess I have earned the gray hair and wrinkles, but I still am a little taken aback that there is an old woman looking at me when I look in a mirror. Anyone else have that happen or am I just weird?
