For years, this blog has been about raising kids, working with kids, and sharing my life with many kids. When I started the blog, my kids were in the throes of Middle School - and writing to an unknown audience in the great "out there" was cathartic. I wrote for me. I wrote about my life. I wrote about things that make me laugh and while attempting to deal with the very real, very frustrating realities of having three kids who were born within 4 years of each other. Their birthdays are all in the same week in January, for God's sake. Not planned to be that way - it just was that way. So when I say it was a challenge having pre-teen or early teen kids, by God, it really was. The kids are all polar opposites of each other - if you can imagine that of three children.
Time inevitably marches onward, and my kids grew up. First one, then another, and finally the last of the kids have moved on. Oldest son is in graduate school in Pennsylvania. Middle child is in Kansas, and daughter is in her last year of college, and she decided to move in with friends and be closer to campus rather than continue the commute back and forth to school every day.
We are still the parents to two cats - Hobbes and Luna. Daughter wanted to take them with her, but the lease said no. Somehow, the cats are easier to parent than the children were. (Go figure...)
I can't really post about the kids. They've all moved out. It's just me and the husband at home now. Posting about how to save money on groceries seems a little insulting when I'm only cooking for 2.
For now, I'm going to put the Blog on hold. Enjoy looking back at our past memories!
