ten years ago today

Well, actually ten years ago two days ago (but that doesn’t roll of the tongue so well, now, right?) I started this blog. I’ll tell you this, my friends. Ten years from now, you won’t believe how very different your life will be. Ten years from now, you’ll wonder how time moves so quickly and so slowly. And so weirdly.

Because what I just said doesn’t even make sense.

But it’s true. How can a thing be opposite of itself? Even in the same day. One hour can be long and another can be short. But it is true and we know this because motherhood. Long and short. Boundless joy and deepest despair. Euphoria and the blues. Thinking your kids is going to go to jail and thinking they are the next great philosopher. And we’re supposed to hold it together. Bwahahaha.

Anyway, ten years ago, which was both three years ago and three decades ago, I had six kids at home, one living on her own, two graduated, a 16, 13, 11, 8 and 5 year old. Ten years ago, we went on our first epic road trip. Ten years ago, I came to terms with no more babies. Ten years ago, I was 47. That felt kinda old. Today, I feel younger.

i get more sleep. I only have one kid left to teach driving to. FYI, I did all the teaching; husband is stressed by being the passenger. I have several grandchildren. And time to pursue that which I believe the good Lord has planned for me. Raising a buncha kids was never boring. Also, still never bored.

Ten years ago, I drove a fifteen seater van. And then we had to sell it.

They were good years. Ten years ago. And this year. All the years.

Remember, every day and every moment, that we may be reflecting back on this moment ten years hence.