Is this thing on?
Sorry to have disappeared. Thank you to everyone who's written and clicked through and wondered if I was going AWOL again.
I'm not. Just was absolutely beyond exhausted, and I hadn't really even realized how much. I had signed up for Holidailies, thinking it would get me back into the groove, and instead, I just stalled completely. Apparently, finishing up a novel completely robbed me of words. I owe e-mail! I owe phone calls! I owe cards!
On the very good news / family front, both my sons graduated this month: Jake, (youngest), went through Firefigher training school and made Firefighter II. And we didn't know until they mentioned it at graduation, but it turns out that the school he went to was one of the top three in the nation. Wooo! Luke (oldest), graduated from college with a Criminal Justice degree, and his college is rated one of the top six in the nation for that degree. He's worked his behind off, and we're very proud of him. Of both of them.
There were a few times when they were younger that I wondered if they'd survive (each other as well as peer group stuff). Only a few times. (3,462,198 times.) It's amazing to see these... these men of mine. They're men. How in the hell did that happen? I can't be old enough to have men as my children. This is too bizarre.
At the same time, to sit around together at family events and everyone is laughing and cutting up and going off on riffs that has the rest of the family rolling, to see the grandparents sitting there with the kids, to know that this won't last forever, but we've got it, we've had those moments, they're ours... we got there, the magical "there" you hope and pray for as parents and as a child yourself. To know we had this, especially this year, is the greatest gift I could have received.
Hope you all have a wonderful New Year, where you have those magical moments for yourself, where your dreams come true, and where disasters do not strike. We're gearing up for the annual 'tater launch party. See you next year!
Posted by toni at December 29, 2005 10:43 AMI hope you have a very wonderful New Year as well.
Think you might be answering your phone anytime soon? :P
You have got to get pics of the 'tater launch. That so cracks me up. I need it right now. I'm in the crunch of the end of school. Spent the past two days finishing up all my homework that needed to be done (mostly writing type stuff), cleaned and organized. I've got roughly 3 weeks till finals, in that time I'll have about a dozen exams, one presentation, two finals, 11 days of class, 5 clinicals and a *cue the music* Partridge in a Pear Treeeeeeeeeee
Then I graduate. Then I get drunk. Very. Very. Drunk.
I think by the end of it, I'll need a paramedic. Know any? ;)
Big hugs and if I don't talk to you soon, I'll definately call you once school is done. Promise.
Posted by: Shannon at January 1, 2006 12:21 AM