Anne Davis:  

Life Strange how you graduate from high school with big expectations and goals, and how somewhere along the way you just let life take you where it leads rather than continuing to pursue your dream. Interestingly enough, as I got older I realized that my dreams were what others had created for me and not really what I wanted in the first place. Looking back, would I change how my life has played out? Absolutely not! I firmly believe that "things" happen for a reason, and while not everything in my life has played out the way I would have chosen, I'm completely happy now with how it's turning out. Would I have ever guessed 25 years ago that I'd be married, have kids, and be living on the East Coast in a suburb of Washington, DC? Never! Obviously God had different plans for me than I did. Cause here I am, married to my best friend for just over half my life, living in Virginia, raising three kids and loving life. Actually my eldest son is 22 and living in Honolulu, so he's pretty much raised and gone. He just returned from serving 15 months in Iraq as an Army medic, and let me tell you, that's no day in the park for a parent. That aged me significantly. My middle son is 16 and learning to drive. Okay, tack another couple years on for that too! Any my youngest, Alexis, is 13 and going through what they characteristically call the "difficult years". Like I needed the added stress and few more gray hairs. My husband has been a police officer for over 20 yea...Expand for more