I'm not a big blogger but as I looked at the calendar today and realize how quickly this summer has past it made me realize how quickly the last few years have past and how much I want to look back and have a place to recall the ups and downs of my life as a mom. The start of a new school year is less than a week away. I can't believe my first born is going to 3rd grade. Wasn't it just yesterday I was watching her giggle and play on the floor in her room, run around our house on her unstable little legs, and watched her repeatedly try to use a spoon for the first time. In just a month she will be 9. How did the time go by so fast? I love seeing who she has become but I can't help but feel the bittersweetness of the reality of how far things have come in those 9 yrs. My only boy will be going to kindergarten. Another new beginning. I've never been one to get weepy over the first day of school, be it preschool or kindergarten, but he's my boy and he's allergic to nuts. Completely terrified!!! I know God has His hand in it b/c I happen to have a Steering meeting that morning. He knew I would need that support and something to pull me away from the school and not sit in the parking lot the whole day. No promises God :) I may still end up there after the meeting but for now I'm thankful for the support I'm going to need that morning!!

It will also be a new beginning for my body! lol 9 yrs and 5 kids hasn't really been nice to this old body. My husband and I recently went away for our 10 yr anniversary to Cedar Point in Ohio. It was a definant reality check! I'm not as young as I use to be or as I use to have myself fooled into thinking I was. Granted I'm only 31 but still, oye this body has been through a lot. But it's time for an overhaul! My husband and I had a competition before the trip who could get into shape the best. I won but not by much, there is much more to be done! I have come to the realization that there are some areas that will simply never be the same again. As a good friend told me, you can only inflate and deflate a balloon so many times before it just doesn't go back lol But I'm going to try. 

I feel joyous for my children starting school soon but a little disappointed too. It's been a lazy summer for us. Normally we're out and about all over town but this summer we were homebodies. Not sure if that's a good thing or not but it was sorta nice. But now I feel the need to cram in all the things I feel like we should have done lol Who knows where we will end up tomorrow and Monday!