Jessie Doering:  

Life: .....Mid-July 2012..... Time for an update once again....I haven't been on this site since 2011! Here I go again, I've moved once more. Seems I've been in perpetual motion the whole time I've been in Montana. Uh. I do not like moving! For starters, I'm getting too old for all of this packing and hauling. My mother joined us the year after Dad passed and within a year she had a stroke, forcing me to come back to town. We've been "camping" ever since February. This is getting old. She refuses to move, so here we sit, prisoners of her will. Sad. My daughter, Heather, is having a fit. Can't say that I blame her. I suppose I, too, would be acting out if it were appropriate at 65. I always assumed that Life would get better and better as age crept up. I'm finding that there can be much sadness connected with the adding of years. There are more things that seem to go wrong. I keep asking, "Where did all of those 'wonder years' go?" Their memory is more like a dream to me, and ever more precious with the passing of time. For those of you who haven't been here before, let me catch you up on all of the past years. For those who have been here a time or two before, just skip to the bottom and spare your eyes. "The walk" has been filled with many interesting experiences along the way. After high school graduation (1964), my mother, brother and I joined my father in France for two years. In 1966, Dad's 66th Tac Recon Wing was transferred to England, where I spent a semester at a little private college just outside of London. I married young (aged 20), bore seven (7) "interesting" children over the course of a two and a half decade marriage. Ron and I divorced in the spring of 1993, and Life for me began anew. First of all, I went back to the university, and finished my education, earning a BA in History. Then, I took a 5th year in Special Ed, and spent 2 years in the classroom, only to realize that I was NEEDED far more at home! My youngest daughter, Heather (now 23), was born with Down Syndrome, and a stay-at-home-mother is what she required most. Oddly enough, she has turned out to be a wonderful traveling companion. We have had many exciting trips around the country discovering the beauty of America. On one of our "outings," we stumbled upon Montana. Well, it didn't take ME long to decide where it was that we should be. So, we went home, and I packed us up and we moved the 1261 miles! What an adventure that was. February is not the month to move to Montana, folks! We hit an ice storm coming through Idaho and the driver's windshield wiper broke, forcing me to drive with my window down, so I could see the road! We managed to make it to a U-Haul dealers...Expand for more