My God … how blessed I am! Here I sit at my desk, looking out the window, reflecting on where my five children are in their lives today. It is with great pride that I can say they are all doing wonderfully. I don’t know what tomorrow will bring, but today, I celebrate.
I am sure you can imagine, as a Mom of 5, that I have A LOT of fun anecdotes on parenting. A few of them are car stories. I don’t like the fact that kids can get cars at 16. I can also tell you that I was not the parent who taught the kids how to drive. It would scare the hell out of me to be in the passenger in the front seat of the car.
How does one begin to tell the story of the time their child was diagnosed with cancer? People usually call leukemia – leukemia. They say it like it is a disease unto itself, but it is cancer. It is a cancer of the blood.
Since I am working on my gratitude journal these days from being in a funk, this came at a good time for me. This is like winning a blogging award, and sharing your passion is a way of counting your blessings, SO if I can inspire one person who reads this to pursue their own passion, then it will be a beautiful trifecta!
This is the time of year when you see all the recent graduates getting ready to go to college. Even if your kid is a sophomore or a junior, like mine, this advice isn’t going to change. Not much has changed in the 16-year span of college for my kids, so this should be timeless. The only thing that will change is the price – always up!
I had five easy, non-sick pregnancies. I had one major glitch with Joe for about a week, but otherwise, I never threw up, felt great and exercised through them all. But did you know I had five c-sections?
I had a lot of screw-ups, but I had to make it right with them. That is how life works. We live and learn and strive to evolve to better ourselves and become better human beings. I hoped to teach my kids not to make the same mistakes as I did.
A story of trust and honesty by guest blogger, Lynn Brasier. Lynn is a recovering drug addict with 8 children who has 3 years sober by the Grace of God.