Day 828: 5 Minute Freewrite: Sunday - Prompt: facelift
This is my post for #freewrite Sunday prompt facelift hosted by @mariannewest
One of my earliest memories is of my Dad teaching me to swim. He would throw me off the dock and jump in after I hit the water he would not let me touch him as I struggled to stay on top of the water. We did this over and over until I could dog paddle myself to shore. My Mother tells me I was two years old when I learned to swim, I find it hard to think I could remember something from when I was two. But I do remember him doing this. We lived on an inlet and it was important for us to know how to swim at an early age. It seems like it was yesterday.
I think I was around 7 years old when I found out how to walk on the bottom of the inlet. I would dive down pick up a big rock and carry it for as long as I could hold my breath. We never owned a diving mask, I think our eyes were used to the saltwater, other people would ask how we could open our eyes under the water.
Those years seemed to drag by, I was never going to grow up. Then I was 17 pregnant and getting married. Kids were great and I never knew I could love someone so much as I did my kids. But were they ever going to grow up?
Their childhood days went by way to fast. As I sit here typing this I think it is true, I blinked. I have no kids at home and when I look in the mirror I see an old lady who needs a facelift.
Tomorrow this old lady gets to fish, the weather has finally going to let us work.
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@myjob You are a young woman with a youthful spirit. Cheers.
@felixgarciap Thank you, you are so kind. In my head, I am still young. I just need to not look in the mirror. lol
Yeah I could need one too but my children not seem to see any difference. 😁
Happy day.
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@wakeupkitty You are lucky, my kids can see the difference. Maybe I have all these wrinkles from being in the sun. That is what I will blame it on, not old age. lol You have a happy day, too.
@myjob I have them because I eat prednisone for years and my skin became thinner...that means more wrinkles... women have a thinner skin as men ... I guess my children are more focussed on the inside or themselves.
Avoiding a mirror helps. 💕
@wakeupkitty Yes avoiding the mirror would make things better. lol
@myjob Let's do that. 😁
@wakeupkitty that is the plan, lol
Alas, time flies by too fast. I enjoyed your free write 😊😊 happy weekend to you!
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@ iamraincrystal Thank you for the nice comment, also wishing you a beautiful weekend. Yes, I can not believe how fast it has gone by.