and a lousy, drive me crazy, out half the day, internet connection. Don’t these people realize I just spent a week with almost no ‘net!? Okay. Enough about my internet addiction.
I hope everyone had a good holiday no matter what it is they celebrate. My kids are in gadget and book heaven this week.
These few days after Christmas a lot of us look to the new year and what our goals are for 2007. And I’m going to do that. Really. Like, later. The next couple of days I’m going to just spend enjoying my kids float on their Christmas high though. ‘Cause I had an epiphany Monday morning. My babies are growing up. I mean, really growing up. The girls will be teenagers soon and too cool to hang out with mom anymore. And that’s just gonna suck. The older they get the more I like them. Did that make sense or did I just come off like monster mommy lol? Anyway one day in the not too distance future the magic is going to wear thin for them. I’m going to miss it.
So I find myself looking back over the last year, and it was a hell of a year for me and my kids. Definitely a year of growth for all of us, and while I’m thrilled the writing is going so well I sure wish I could slow them down a little.
Anyone else want to freeze time for just a little while? I just need a little longer to enjoy them at this stage before those awful teenage years sneak up on me lol!
December 28th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Oh man. I hear ya about that grown up thing. It’s pretty scary. They hit it around pre-teen (my niece is 12 and already starting to change!) I don’t want Emma to ever leave! Sigh.
Glad you had a good Christmas!
December 29th, 2006 at 1:14 am
Lori that made perfect sense. The older my oldest gets the more we’re friends, not that I try to be but we have a lot of the same tastes and simliar senses of humor. And my baby will be 11 on Saturday but he’s a die-hard mama’s boy *g*
January 1st, 2007 at 7:51 pm
I don’t have kids, but I always wish I had more time to enjoy what I love: my friends, my family, my writing.
January 4th, 2007 at 3:35 am
I hear ya, Lori. I’d like to freeze my boys where they all are now…on the nights the youngest sleeps through the night.
As they get older, we get to enjoy them, instead of just take care of them. On the plus side, we get to like ‘em better. On the down side, we have much less control…and we have to trust them, and ourselves, that they’re going to make the right decisions on their own.
Ugh