Middle Child Mom

It's December already. Wow, this has really been a crazy, wild, incredibly adventurous year (5 months) for me! I love my life. I've always been a happy person by nature, but I think I lost that for a while. I have found my way back to becoming my happy, joyful self again. I'm about to tell you something, but you have to promise you'll keep it to yourself. No, really. It's kind of embarrassing, and it's something that I've made fun of others for doing, including some very close friends. Let me preface this with the fact that since becoming single, at 49, I had had some "dates". But they were actually activities with good guy friends who were very supportive and really just wanted to make sure I was taken care of, more than really date me. So six months ago I went online at LDS singles. It was free and I wanted to see what my options were going to be in the world of dating at my age. What one is interested in at 50 is not the same as when one was 18. I made a little profile but didn't post a picture. I think you can't comment unless you join (or something like that) Anyway, I started getting messages sent to me but most of them said "you sound *fun *nice *interesting *funny, but you really need to post a picture". So I got brave and posted a picture, and paid for a one month membership. The pic. was of me and my sister on Thanksgiving, in our aprons that our other sister had made for us. Nothing fancy. In fact it was downright UN-fancy!(the picture, not the apron) Holy Cow! One semi-UG picture and then  the guys were ready to talk. Most of them were really nice (I think you can't say mean things on there) Some of them were handsome. Some were put-me-to-sleep uninteresting.Some looked OLD. One guy wanted to line me up with his older brother and he himself looked like he was 75! A few were scary-forward. One guy had a great good tolerable on-line persona, but when I met him for ice cream at a very public place, his in-person personality was, are-my-eyes-as-glazed-over-as-they-feel     B O R I N G.  ....One day I came across a message from a man whose picture was kinda cute, it looked like he was standing in front of a pagoda at Epcot, and his message was pretty funny. His profile name was "legalRon". I don't know why, but I automatically thought he was in law enforcement. Hmm...date a cop? Wasn't too sure about that. Most cops are moody and mean. And I didn't need THAT. I put him on the back burner. Just before my "membership" ran out I was clearing out my old messages and came across legalRon's message. But he had posted a new picture and what actually caught my eye was this picture had the ca-utest baby girl in it. Then I looked at the gentleman who was holding that darling baby girl, and I thought hey waitaminute! This guy is really handsome! That's when I responded to his message...(finally). Does that sound shallow?? Sometimes I just gotta be hit up the side of the head, and it took an adorable baby girl to do it! Oh my goodness! I've just rambled on. I'll have to give my next installment of this story in the day's to come. G'night! P.S. After talking to him, I found out he wasn't in law enforcement. And that picture of him wasn't taken at Epcot. He was actually in China. (Lol, I'm such a dork!)