Renewal

Here's a novel thought. My kids are grown, my career is building, my house is nearly how I want it to be (but for the new kitchen coming very soon)and my husband and I have never been closer. Isn't funny how we come full circle?

First we fall in love and marry and spend our days playing. We learn about each other's talents and desires and spend not only a vast amount of time together, but really quality time. Then the children are born and our lives take a 180 degree turn. We find ourselves becoming parents. It's Mommy and Daddy time. And we love every darn minute of it. We're truly blessed to have this little people in our lives. We play with them, nurture them, teach them, discipline them and it saps all of our energy and most of our time. And then, these molded shaped wonderful beings leave the nest and we find ourselves empty ... but for a time.

But once the empty nest shock is gone, we renew. We find ourselves again -- the people we once were before the children came into our lives. We laugh, we joke, we play games, we become intimate and we find our bond strenghened through it all. We are a family first and foremost, but we are a couple once again ... truly and forever. It is how it all began.

We are renewed.