I just realized that I have not had a weekend with the girls since January.
Y'all don't understand we are use to having a GIRLLY GATHERING at least once a quarter.
As I was driving up, I realized that I have not been this way in a very very very long time.
When I worked in Nashville, I would make this drive at least once a week, sometimes two times a week. That is a 4 hour commute each way. When I was working for the money, it made me do some things that I now look back on say "What was I thinking???"
And if y'all don't know, I hate to drive more than I hate eggs. And I really really really hate eggs. It just amazes me how much my outlook on life has changed since I gave birth to those babies. Kids make you look at the world differently.
I can remember thinking and probably saying to many of my friends who had children earlier in life, "How could you stay home", "Your children need to see their mother with a CAREER and taking care of herself", "Women fought for you to go back to work".
Y'all know all the crazy things that we tell one another until we have children. Then we have them and the tune becomes,
"I stay home so that my kids can have all that I am and all that I can be. I stay home because I have no regrets or misgivings about the world and I want them to be grounded and secure everyday that they come home from school. Raising my kids is a job from the heart and not just the pocket. I want them to see that I can always be here and still do what I love. No women did fight for me to go back to work, they fought for me to have the choice to go back to work and for right now, I am grateful that I can make the choice NOT to go."
And to think, a weekend with the gurlzz and my wonderful friends all came to be because we all have children and started scrapbooking.
GOD, I LOVE MY KIDS.
until we meet again,
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