The time got away from me. /me is still reading & will pick up again soon.

I am to Looking Back & need to get some sleep. I wish I had kept a better journal as a child & young man. I had always been an awkward extrovert & when I embraced my "nerdtasticness" in Jr High, and just chose to be friends with every "outcast" it became pretty clean in my school that we nerds & outcasts were over two thirds of the school's population & the other cliques just were small loud groups. I only had a few friends before 8th grade, though I tried (oh man my socially awkward self tried).

Embracing who you are as an individuals (faults & all) is the biggest & first step in growth & prospering from my experience. Your tales of heartache remind me of my own & as I navigated love until God brought me to my forever wife. She is a blessing I do not deserve & am so grateful God saw fit to tell her I was worth marriage.

Thanks for sharing this post, & even though you have never quilted, I still love the sticker. Those memories of helping my Grandma in my youth are fantastic memories.