Hello World

This is my first blog although I am a veteran at journals and notebooks. I felt like it was time, time for a lot of things. Allow me to give you a brief introduction to who I am. Who I am has always been defined by who I am in relation to someone else. The first part of my life defined me as someone's daughter. When I got married I became defined as someone's wife and the majority of my life has been defined as being someone's mother.
 Don't get me wrong, I love being a wife and being a mother has always been such a privilege and joy but I now find myself in an interesting situation, unsure of how to define myself. I graduated from college less than a year ago (a slow but sweet degree course). My youngest daughter is living away from home and my oldest daughter just got married and moved out with her new husband. This new situation is how I came up with the address name for my blog, Empty Nest...Full Belly.
 I find myself living in a house alone with my husband, something I haven't done in 25 years and I am just a little unsure on how we go from here. This is the empty nest part of it. The full belly part of it is that I also find myself pretty overweight. How I got here is a combination of things from unresolved childhood traumas to stress eating to habit but all of that tracks back to me not really knowing how to put myself first and be a little selfish. I guess that is what this blog will be about.
It will be about how one fills an empty nest with new marital connections and new connections with other people. It will be about finding my way with my new degree and attempting to make a difference in the life of families and people in general. It will be about my journey towards a healthier and smaller body. It will also most likely be about things I am passionate about or things that I feel are holding weight or anxiety on me. It will be about me, the me I am prepared to find. I am excited about the journey and excited to share it. Who knows, maybe my journey can help someone else along their path. So yes, hello world, this is me.
 Shall we discover together who I am?