Don't look for trouble

After 31 years I have finally learned, don't look for trouble, or stress or worries or any other word that could fill in that blank.  It will find you eventually.  No matter how much you try, life isn't perfect. There are ups and downs and sometimes some really way downs.  That happens enough on its own.  I have finally learned that it is better to just roll with the punches and enjoy the drama/stress/fill in the blank times when you get them because Lordy knows they don't last long enough before something rolls in.

I have also learned that if you limit the people in your life that are what I affectionatly call "stink stirrers" it takes a lot of stress/drama/fill in the blank off of you.

I realize that this is something that I should have learned a long time ago.  Let's face it that is a lesson that much like touching the stove to learn it's hot, you must learn on your own and in it's own time.

That time of year again

It is officially summer.  Kids are out of school, sports are over for the time being, and vacation time has come and gone.  We struck out two Saturdays ago and headed to the beach for a week.  We go to the Outer Banks of North Carolina every year for our vacation.  We rent a house and just enjoy family time together as well as plenty of sand, sun, and surf.  It always goes by way to fast, way to fast for the prep work that goes into it.  However this year something remarkable happened.  Thing 1 began mentioning trips past.  He would say, "Mama, remember when we went here and did this?" or "Daddy remember going and doing this?"  It hit me so hard that all the hopes I had of making memories with my two little fellas is actually working!!! They are remembering trips we make together and stuff we do together.  It made all of the chaos totally worth it. 

:So for now we have finished up the big beach trip but will be making several little ones to "Grandma Cathy's" and I am just as excited about those as I am the big one.  It's more memories to be made, and more sun to soak up.