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Half a century is how long I’ve been breathing air according to the calendar. Here’s the heart-level truth about what this milestone means to me, aside from the pleasure of getting an AARP card in the mail: I’ve spent the last 50 years finding my way back to myself and…
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Motherhood will always surprise us. We don’t know what we don’t know until we know. Until then, let’s be “all in” to what’s in front of us.
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Uninterrupted quality time makes for a perfect setting to talk about a quarter century of togetherness, so as part of the adventure, we decided to create a video documentary along the way called: Life As We Know It: A Tell All (most) About 25 Years of Marriage and Parenting
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My journey through the “that was then, but this is now” space in raising young adults. I have a knack of trying to do God’s job for him. So far, it hasn’t worked out.
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Projecting fear and worry based on potential circumstances or scripting how we will respond to this or that is trying to control an illusion. Only God knows the path for our kids and for us as parents.
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And as conduits of Grace and Mercy, our tweens and teens have an uncanny ability to dump the laundry basket of our neatly folded selves into a heap on the floor. Thank God. Really, God, thank you.
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Taking the time to reflect and observe the now independent creatures who sucked the life out of your DNA for eighteen years—while also filling you back up with love of course—helps you realize you actually did some things right.
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Turns out the emotional yin yang of empty nest is quite an oxymoron because so many contradictions describe a mothers’ feelings. So, how about we cry-laugh through our emotions?
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When our kin are ready to cross the threshold of dependence into full-blown independence, a surreal sense of shock and awe heaves through our tender veins. This time letting go means putting the nesting broom away for good, causing our soul to corkscrew in the process. But like any other stage of parenting, we press on and find our way one breath at a time.
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