A Lucky Winner and Growing Up

Fiiiiiiirst, tickled pink to announce a winner to the wonderful giveaway Gil’s had for a $50 gift certificate….

@lyric marie, gurrrrrl! You lucky dawg! That’s you! I’ll email you the deets so you can begin shopping! Congrats to you! Thank you Gil’s for spreading the love from your store and letting me share a bit of you with the rest of the world!

So something has been on my mind and it’s been leaving me with an open pitt feeling in my gut… ugh….

Ok….. so there is one week left till the end of school, and my son “graduates” from lower division.

(This was his first day of first grade.)

What does that mean? He’s moving on up to middle division… No more “Hello boys and girls” from his teachers… He gets the sex-ed talk next year (yeah that freaks me out that we’re there already!)… He’ll be with “the big kids”… I’m just TOTALLY getting sad about this whole growing-up thing.

So I’m doing my best to not think about it all, but it’s that thing that creeps into my brain anytime there is silence and knocks the wind out of me. And I’m constantly reminded as my friends kids are graduating high school (HELLO?? WAY more sad than THIS!), and think to myself oh my goodness, I’m going to be a MESS when THAT time comes!!! {blubbering fool!!!}… like super close family peeps to me and I can’t believe the time has come that these little guys are all grown up.

How does that happen?

So fast?

Can’t be. {sad face}

Anyways… not trying to be Debbie Downer, but just sharing how I feel. I’m so happy with all that I’m doing with my work and it’s been a good distraction to be quite frank from my son movin on up that is taking place in my world.

It’s not just now that these thoughts have crossed my mind, but I think about things like, only a few years from now, my daughter will be driving to school. Say what???? {enter sad face again}

Anyways… it’s a part of life, and everyone goes thru it. I’m trying to wear my smile and think happy thoughts and be appreciative of these gifts I’ve been given and enjoy every minute of it all. It’s all so bittersweet, don’t you agree?

So if you catch me in the next few weeks with a tear in my eye, know that I’m sad watching our babies grow up, but I rejoice that they’re blossoming. It’s a fact of life, bittersweet, every parent goes thru it, and we move on to the next phase.

Thank God for TRUE friends, incredible family, this vent I have called my blog, living On Purpose, and learning to grow from each phase in our lives.

Whew!

Ok. I feel better!

Now…. it’s Friday… let’s tear it up and have some fun, shall we?

muuuuuuuah! Love you all!