2019 and beyond...

I'm writing this from a mom's perspective because well, I'm a mom. But I believe this is important for all parents. I hear horror stories of monster in laws often. I vowed to never be that, ever. I was lucky and my mother in law is the best! She's an ex mother in law now but I still think she is the best mother in law ever. I strive to be just as wonderful for my son and daughter in laws. With that said it's not always easy. When your adult children are in a serious relationship they gain a whole other family, one that becomes important to them. You may not see them every hoilday, you may have to celebrate their birthday on a day that isn't their actual birthday. All of this is okay, it will be okay. We do our best to raise respectful, idependant adults so when they become this we have to respect their decisions. Even if that decisions mean they are going on a birthday weekend trip with their spouses family. This is when I say things you don't want to hear

I recently looked at my comments, clicked on their blog and then started clicking on the blogs she followed. All these blogs last posts were in 2011 or before. I started to skim and realized this was when people would blog for the fun of it. It seems every blog now is a source of income, it's a business now. Kind of sad to me, even though I don't really read blogs anymore.... somewhere along the way I lost my way. I stopped writing so I stopped reading or maybe I stopped writing because I stopped reading. I don't know. It's hard to know. And I wonder how other bloggers last post became their last post... Did their life get busy, did they lose their passion, did they start a new blog with a different direction? I'd love to know... Did you blog back in the day? Do you still blog, if not, why? I will say I am disappointed in myself, maybe if I kept with it full time blogging could be a business for me. Who knows. As I sit here writing this I am realizing man I love th