Fear Factor

I don't know about anyone else but I am a worrier.  I wasn't always.  In fact, I am not even sure when it happened but I am going to say at some point in adulthood.  Perhaps because when George and I started out I was really young (like REALLY) and he had four kiddoes and a failing business and what was I thinking?? Ok, I simply said that before you had a chance to.  What I was thinking was that I loved him and that with my "can do" attitude I could make this work and everything would be fine.  And for 37 years it has been.  For the most part.  But there were a lot of "scary" times for a young woman trying to raise kids that weren't hers, and helping salvage and restart a plumbing business, of which I knew nothing about, and maintaining the everyday necessities of life at the same time.  It was hard.  On all of us.  And I worried.  A lot.  Was I doing a good job with the business?  Was I doing right by his children?  How were we going to pay the bills?  And was this something I could and wanted to do?  The answer to all of that was yes.  I did the best I could at such a tender age and we made it through.  Shelton Plumbing is also 37 years old, the kids are alive and well, we paid the bills and even managed to accrue more bills and have a child of my own.  I went to college during all of this, started a career and retired from it and started a new one. I have seen friends and loved ones married and buried. And the things I was afraid of?  Don't seem scary at all anymore. And the things I never worried about? Are scary things indeed. Just sayin.