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Welcome to my blog. These pages are comprised of diary entries in a radius of time surrounding my 50th birthday. I am a 51.5 year old woman who waited to marry until mid-thirties, and then waited to have children til 40 & mid-forties. My sons are 11 and 7. I was a medical professional for over 20 years. In 1999 my husband got a job opportunity in the midwest that paid a family wage. This meant I could be a full-time at-home mother to my then-2-year-old son. The youngest was born in St. Louis. After a 5 year stay my husband found work back in the Pacific Northwest where we lived originally. In fall of 2004 we moved back to the house we'd kept and rented out. 11 months later we moved again into a house in the boys' school district. These pages begin a month ahead of my 49th birthday, during the 2nd move. Of course, this will make more sense to start with the real-time July 12, 2008 pages (as opposed to the diary entries which begin in Sept 2005).