Things you can’t tell by just looking at her

1.  I have never been baptized.

2.  Which is fine, because although I believe in God and many of the events written about in the Bible, I don’t take it as the final word on how things happened.  After all, history is written by the winners.

3.  I am the youngest of 5.

4.  You would not see the 5 of us together and think, oh, siblings.

5. I am the only one of my siblings who is overweight.

6.  But I’m also the one who is NOT on any type of cholesterol medicine. And no signs of diabetes.

7.  I smoked once when I was about 4 – took Bro2’s cigarette out of the ashtray and puffed and choked.  Never tried it again.

8.  I had my first drink of beer at 6 or 7, from the same brother.  Beer.  Hated it.

9.  I didn’t drink again until I was 13 – at a friend’s aunt’s house.  Whiskey,.  Hated it.

10.  I didn’t drink again until I was 21.  Still hated it, but still did it.

11.  Back to the religion thing – I did go to the Methodist church as a child.

12.  And I was the president of the Youth Group for 2 years running.

13.  I had my first kiss in the basement of that church.

14.  I loved him all through into high school, until he graduated.

15.  He wouldn’t date me because back then I was a size 14 and the other girls were much smaller.

16.  Years later, I found out he married someone who looked exactly like me, extra pounds and all.

To be continued…