As I sit here a begin to think about how I go about telling a little about myself, I wonder, who am I?  So yea, I want to give you a little information to get this started.  My name is Wanda.  I have a wonderful husband and a bunch of kids.  I say a bunch because, well we do have quite the blended family.  Upon marrying my husband, I gained three "step" children.  We don't use the word "step", they are our children.  I brought into this marriage a son from a previous marriage as well.  My husband and I have three sons together as well.  Together we have a well blended family of seven children our youngest born in 2014 and the oldest born is 1999.  We do what we can to make it work, especially with me being sick.

 

I lost my mother, with whom I was really close to in 2013.  I found out I was pregnant with my youngest son the day before.  I didn't even get to tell her.  Losing my mother was definitely the worst thing I have ever had to go through in my life and honestly, may ultimately be the worst I will ever experience.   I can still sit and think about her and cry like it was yesterday.  I can talk about the stupidest things or listen to some song that has that hidden meaning that just brings up the tears.  Thirteen months later, my husband loses both of his parents.  It's still insane how it happened.  He loses his parents all of seven minutes apart.  You may think it was some freak accident and they went together.  Nope.  His father was in hospitalized due to his cancer.  His mother, who has cooked all her life, has an extreme accident with the stove.  They weren't even hospitalized in the same city.  I truly feel that his father died, and it took him seven minutes to pick up his mother to go with him to heaven together.

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So yeah, I am a very emotional person who is dealing with Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Kidney disease (from the Lupus), many issues with the discs in my neck and back (assuming from the Lupus as I never did anything to injure my back or my neck).  I always tell my boys that my wrestling career has ended.  We love wrestling.  I grew up watching it through the 80s and 90s and still love it to this day. 

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I love writing, photography and spending time with my family.  We try to do as much as we can as a family, though I struggle through it with pain.