Happiness

***I wrote this post two months ago, but am posting it anyway! This morning was a crazy morning. The carpet cleaners are coming to clean our carpets- I got a great deal on living social- so I was trying to move stuff off the carpet. Declan woke up for the day at the early hour of 6:40 am and he woke up grumpy! I woke up at 5 and meant to go back to sleep but checked on the kids and found Ethan awake with a sore throat. Then I couldn't fall back asleep so I got up and did some meditation. On to the subject line of the post. It rained last night instead is snow so the 6 inches of snow covering our whole back yard was now covered in a layer of ice topped snow. The kids had 5 minutes before it was time to go to school, so they decided to head out back and realized what a icy adventure our yard had become. I quickly wrangled them back inside before anyone got hurt! Then, I went to toast an English muffin and something in the bottom burst into flames! had toasted a cheesy jal...

So, Elizabeth, my oldest starts Jr. High on Tuesday. Ok, it's actually Middle School but it's for 7,8 and 9th graders so to me it is more like Jr High. She has been anxious, I have been anxious. Maybe I won't send her. I'll keep her home. I'll keep her close to me.  She's a great kid. She'll do great. It's just that she's growing up. She's becoming more independent. Again. I thought we did this already in Kindergarten. I've decided that life is always changing. Always. It is never static or complete. It doesn't stay the same. It's a moving river- not a lazy river- but a rapid one- and I better get on the raft and hold on tight! Things are changing!