20 years ago:
- I had an adorable 18month old.
- was the last time I got a traffic ticket.
- we just moved into an old decrepit abandoned house that was falling apart. But it was ours -- all ours!
- we had an 11 year old, a 9 year old, a 6 year old and a 3 year old.
- I ran a daycare group.
- we built a second floor on our house.
5 years ago:
- I had a daughter that could drive!
- I became an eagle scout (c'mon moms - you know you earn it as much as your sons.)
- I was doing some subsitute teaching at my kids' school.
3 years ago:
- I started working from home.
- we traveled to Hawaii and Alaska.
- I was teaching Relief Society.
- I refinished 9 wooden dining room chairs.
- I went on a fun road trip with my sister.
- I had my first vacation all by myself. (Family traveled to Idaho, I had some scheduling complications so I couldn't go. It was a blissful week!)
This year so far:
- we worked on some remodeling.
- I taught early morning seminary.
- I traveled to Nashville, Provo and Catalina.
- I took care of some office paperwork.
- I hung a shelf in the laundry room.
- I organized shelves/cupboards in laundry room.
- run errands - Home depot for a/c filters, bank deposit, drop off stuff at DI
- watch "So You Think You Can Dance"
- attend a seminary training meeting.
Tomorrow I will:
- sent out collection letters for our business.
- post some ads on Craig's List.
- find a book I'm supposed to be reading. (I had it once, but left it on an airplane last week)
In the next year I will:
- organize all the storage spaces in our house.
- be a better visiting teacher.
- enjoy this transitional stage more - kids graduating, moving out, etc. and figure out how to be a mom to adult kids (any suggestions are welcome).
4 comments:
Boy, it's been a long time since I've been to your house, I did not know you had a second story! I love your chairs! They look terrific! Hard to believe what goes on in 20 years! (And they were really short & fast!) As for adult kids...augh! I think I'll go back to the teens!!! I feel right now we try to listen, be supportive, but we do a lot of reminding them of covenants and committments, blessings and a whole lot of praying and suggesting! Now, I know for a fact, we were not at all like this at their age!!! You guys are great, and look at all that talent you all have, you all always amaze me!
This is a fun tag and helps put things in perspective and realize that in the midst of the rat race, we do accomplish much!
I'm not going to do it until I get back so I have time to think about it.
Cynthia dahling - you are BEAUTIFUL and everyone in the family is BEAUTIFUL - ! (To say nothing of a very impressive time-line).
Do you realize what a miracle that family portrait is? Instead of documenting our family group on a regular basis like everyone else I knew - our attempts were too few and disappointing. Someone was always doing the bug-eye, or grinning like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, having a bad hair day, or worse - closing their eyes.
Now that I have been organizing more of our photo collection, I feel better about how we are captured on film. It seems charming, even endearing in my old age.
You are however, very lucky to have such a beautiful portrait of everyone! This one ought to be Large and in charge in your foyer or - replacing what's over the piano. Yes. Let this be the one people can see while they are knocking on your door!
Wow! What a lot of accomplishments! Glad to get to know a bit more about you, Cindy. yeah, I so can't even imagine the adult children thing...sooo far away!!
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