My children are growing up!!!

My Sarah will be 15 tomorrow. I can't believe my children are growing up so fast!!! It really seems like yesterday that they were little and they believed everything I said. I tell them something now and you can see the skepticism cross their minds. You can see that they are beginning to realize that I really am not that smart.

I look back on it all and I realize that I would have done so many things differently. I might have not insisted on moving to a house (we could have stayed at the town house) and I would have been a stay at home mother. I might have baked cookies with them and read to them more. I would have picked them up from school and discussed their day face to face instead of by cell phone every day. Oh, who am I kidding??? That would have driven me crazy! I would never have been happy staying at the town house with no money.

John and I have worked very hard for our lifestyle. It has taken sacrifice on our parts, some luck, and hard work!!! People often say that the reason that they have problems is because of their messed up childhoods! Well I say - Get over it! Parents do the very best that they can - Yes, we fail a lot but not because we want to fail, we fail because there is no book that tells us what to do - we do what we think is best at the time. Hopefully, our children will raise our grandchildren a little better than we raised them. Hopefully, our grandchildren will get it a little better and our great grandchildren will turn out even better.

Saying all of that, I know that I have the BEST parents in the entire world. Even as an adult, I turn to my parents for guidance. I can only hope that my children feel the same way and turn to John and I for guidance when they are adults.

The following is a part of my devotional today and it went directly to my heart:

"To make a decision to have a child, it's momentous. It is to decide to have your heart go walking around outside of your body for the rest of your life." That is how our Heavenly Father feels about His children!

We are so lucky!!!