If I Could Do It Over

I had to reach back into the dusty archives of 30 years ago to produce a document for a legal process today, and it got me to think about do-overs. What would I have done and not have done?

I think I still would have e married my first husband, although I might not have been so quick on the trigger about getting a divorce. 

I hope I would have listened to that first doctor who said, "You are clinically depressed. Take this medicine," and  not listened to those "friends" who told me the doc was a quack. 

I'd have studk with that first dream of teaching and writing, and I'd have spent a lot more money on travel and a lot less on beer.

There are some things I don't think I would change, but oddly enough they came a lot later in life. I suppose that means that I learned to make better decisions as I got older.

I'd still have snagged my husband the minute I met him. I might have kept my mouth shut a little more often, but you live and learn. I'd make an effort to have a good relationship with his family sooner.

I'd still have taken care of my mom before she died. That may be the best decision I ever made.

My kids turned out okay, but if I were to change anything about their upbrining, I suppose I would have home-schooled them all instead of waiting until the last one was foundering in a huge high school.  

I've had a pretty good life, which seems to be taking off, now that we're on the home stretch of raising our family.

 What would you keep? What would you change? Why?