Living life and loving it. Been busy lately. My lap top is down right now and just getting it sent out to get fixed. Borrowing someones at the moment.

   The lesson I have recently learned recently is how hard it is having kids grow up. I raise my kids that I don't worry so much when they are out in the world as adults. It's just they turn 18 and you find you have even less time with them than you did when they were teen kids. The reality that you have kids to raise them for 18 yrs. then they go out and live their own life and aren't around all that much has hit me recently. I am glad to see my son out living his life. I remember being 18 and always on the go. My soon to be 20 yr. old doesn't and never has been one to run around. But my 18 yr. old son does. My advice to moms and dads enjoy your children while they are children because the time flies by in a blink of an eye. Enjoy the good with the bad, the bad with the good. They will be grown and out of the house before you know it and you will wonder where the time has gone. Also don't get lost along the way raising them. Don't lose yourself. I found myself doing just that many yrs. ago.  Thank goodness I realized it before kids started leaving the nest. Because someday all my babies will be raised. I am a Stay at home mom. I have learned to find things I like to do and make time for them and me. So when my children all have left the nest I will have me still intact. I will have some idea where to go from there.
      Take a class here or there. Find a hobby. Get active. It's okay to have a life outside your kids at times too even when they are growing up still. Just learn how to balance it.
       So realize you are a mom/dad but you are more than that. You are a sister/brother, son/daughter, wife/husband, friend, career person, and so much more and you have a right to be. For in the end you will not always have little ones running under your feet and will need to have a life of your own.