Posts

Showing posts from September, 2022

Parenting 231 Dog Years

Image
                                                               I've been on this parenting journey for 33 years. Seeing that typed out feels even more shockingly true! That's the equivalent of 231 dog years! There were so many days when I was plain dog tired! So many days I thought would never end. Would I survive? My greatest desire was to just get in a good nap or just orchestrate 5 minutes of precious peace. I bet you can relate. I blinked. There stood before me my 3 sons who would tower over me by 3 heads and 3 sets of shoulders. Those years lived up to the prediction of flying by ever so fast.  How can this be? I have arrived at this stage of life called "the empty nest." It once seemed so far into the future but now I've landed smack dab in the middle of it. What was once outside my grasp is now well within my reach. E...