{"id":5568,"date":"2013-07-30T22:48:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T05:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=5568"},"modified":"2013-08-05T23:12:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T06:12:03","slug":"52-weeks-of-blogging-with-a-purpose-if-i-could-turn-back-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=5568","title":{"rendered":"52 Weeks of Blogging with a Purpose: If I Could Turn Back Time…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week’s topic: if I could turn back time…<\/p>\n

I try to live my life without regrets but there are things in my past that I wish I could do over.<\/p>\n

If I could turn back time, I would make sure Daniel got the high-risk screening in Montana.<\/strong> Granted, our lives were in such chaos at the time that it would have been ONE MORE THING but it would have let us know that there was a problem before we reached southern California and had to figure out how to get him help.<\/p>\n

If I could turn back time, I would not have compared Daniel to every other child I encountered.<\/strong> Doing all the comparing just made me feel like the worst mommy ever… and for things that weren’t my fault.<\/p>\n

If I could turn back time, I would not have been so jealous of moms with normally-developing kids.<\/strong> This has been another source of stress in my life and it’s one that kept me from appreciating Daniel as much as I should have. I’m not going to lie — it is hard having a kid with special needs — but it is ten times cooler when he hits those milestones.<\/p>\n

If I could turn back time, I wouldn’t have procrastinated as much in high school.<\/strong> I did get good grades but they could have been better if I hadn’t put things off until the last minute.<\/p>\n

If I could turn back time, I would have gone with my strengths in college and double majored in History and Linguistics.<\/strong> I’m glad I had all the Biology and Chemistry but my college GPA would have been better if I had gone with history classes and language classes, areas where I excel.<\/p>\n

If I could turn back time, I would have learned NFP before I got married.<\/strong> The Pill had some negative effects on me and other forms of contraception don’t appeal to me. I wish I would have learned how to read my body to know what my fertile signs were so that I wasn’t in the dark about how my body works.<\/p>\n

If I could turn back time, I would tell myself not to sweat the fact that I was never invited to Homecoming because it was overrated and I had better times at the formals in college<\/a>.<\/strong> It really depressed me in my junior and senior years not to be invited and I spent a lot of time wondering what was wrong with me. The answer: nothing. The really awesome guys who I hoped would ask me all turned out to be gay. Yeah… didn’t see that one coming.<\/p>\n

If I could turn back time, I would take better care of myself.<\/strong> I’m having to drop a chunk of weight and am finding that doing so is a catch-22. My fibromyalgia is better with exercise… but the exhaustion makes it hard to exercise. I really need to find something I like doing and stick to it.<\/p>\n

If I could turn back time, I would ignore the lies I was being told by Satan that any church I attended would give me crap because my parents weren’t there.<\/strong> I was thoroughly welcomed when I *did* start attending church<\/a> and they were fine with the fact that I attended by myself.<\/p>\n

Now go see Becky<\/a> and what everyone else<\/a> would do if they could turn back time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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