Hi! It’s been almost 4 years since I have written on this blog! I’m back and am so happy to be writing here again! I’ve really missed this blog.
Let me catch you up on where my life is today. I have aged a few years since my last writing! So have my kids. No diapers, no bottles and no more baby food in this house! Some things are so much easier, but I miss my babies! I love my child, and my emerging adult so much! Now, we have independence, privacy, hormones, constantly changing emotions, homework, friends in and out, cell phones, drama! It’s crazy busy and so much fun to watch them grow up!
I left that crappy job for one I love. I miss working from home, but being in the office and around people was just what I needed at the time. I love my job and feel fortunate to have had an opportunity to do lots of different things there.
I feel like I have a part-time job as a chauffeur to my children – taking them to practices and parties and friends and events and… the list never ends! And the logistical coordination of all of this sometimes makes me crazy!!
I have developed a great support network of friends for me and my kids. With no family within 250 miles, a great network of friends has been invaluable for me. They help me out and I help them out.
What I have learned in these last few years has been incredible though. I really don’t define myself as a single mom, even though I am. I am a full time mom just like any other mom. I am a working mom, just like many moms.
I had some hard times, just like every single person in this world. Your hard times aren’t like mine, but we all have hard times. And, we all have great times. I have learned to accept that we aren’t trying to avoid the hard times, because the hard times will come. We get stronger through them and dig ourselves out with hard work and tenacity and focus and determination and grit and tears. And we make it to the other side stronger and different.
I’ve learned to see the beauty in grief and loss and change. It’s part of our human being… to experience all of the good and bad that life gives us. It’s up to us to get through it. It’s hard as hell. And, it’s wonderful and beautiful and messy and hard and gut-wrenching, at times.
I’ve learned to be more appreciative and to enjoy the good times.
I have learned to enjoy this messy life that I have.
-Sarah
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