if you would have asked me ten years ago where i would be today….
i would have N E V E R in my life dreamed i would be where i am at this very moment in time
ten years ago on this very day at about this very time I was sitting at a bar
drinking too many green beers…flirting with too many (what I thought at the time was cute) boys…having absolutely no cares in the world….
ten years ago….if you would have asked me if i wanted to get married and settle down i would have rolled on the floor laughing until I either peed my pants or barfed green beer all over your shoes….it is St Pats day after all and what else is there to do but drink?!?!?!….
at this point in time, marriage was not in my cards….or so I thought
ten years ago if you would have asked me if i wanted kids i would have rolled my eyes (which i am very, very VERY good at by the way) and told you that there was NO WAY I would EVER give up my firm, tight, SKINNY body or my freedom for kids….
fast forward…..it’s ten years later…..it’s St Patricks Day…i am not sitting at a bar…i am not drinking, dancing, or flirting with anyone….
i am married to a wonderful man…a man i was reconnected with a short time after St Patricks Day ten years ago…a man that would and has moved mountains for me…a love that is so pure and so strong we have been able to weather the roughest of storms….a love that feels new to me every day i wake up...after 10 years it still has not gotten old....
we have 2 beaitful daughters that i would not only give up my young, tight, rock hard body for but i would give my life for….
these girls are what gets me through the hardest of days….
these girls are what makes my world go round….
they can make me laugh, cry and get furious all in a matter of minuets….
they are the soul of me….my family is what makes me whole….complete
sometimes…just for a second…for a brief minute I think and I catch a glimps of the old me…the one sitting at the bar…and I have this tiny itsy bitsy urge to join her….just for a second…just for a moment in time…and it’s normally when I am having a particulary hard day…. the days where nothing goes right and you just want to lock yourself in your closet and hide from everyone...
But that thought passes through me so quickly….I see my babies faces…their smiles…hear their voice….step on their Pet Shop or one of their 92,845,023,808,0978,398 pairs of Barbie shoes and I know that I am lucky….not just on this day but on EVERY day….
i would have N E V E R in my life dreamed i would be where i am at this very moment in time
ten years ago on this very day at about this very time I was sitting at a bar
drinking too many green beers…flirting with too many (what I thought at the time was cute) boys…having absolutely no cares in the world….
ten years ago….if you would have asked me if i wanted to get married and settle down i would have rolled on the floor laughing until I either peed my pants or barfed green beer all over your shoes….it is St Pats day after all and what else is there to do but drink?!?!?!….
at this point in time, marriage was not in my cards….or so I thought
ten years ago if you would have asked me if i wanted kids i would have rolled my eyes (which i am very, very VERY good at by the way) and told you that there was NO WAY I would EVER give up my firm, tight, SKINNY body or my freedom for kids….
fast forward…..it’s ten years later…..it’s St Patricks Day…i am not sitting at a bar…i am not drinking, dancing, or flirting with anyone….
i am married to a wonderful man…a man i was reconnected with a short time after St Patricks Day ten years ago…a man that would and has moved mountains for me…a love that is so pure and so strong we have been able to weather the roughest of storms….a love that feels new to me every day i wake up...after 10 years it still has not gotten old....
we have 2 beaitful daughters that i would not only give up my young, tight, rock hard body for but i would give my life for….
these girls are what gets me through the hardest of days….
these girls are what makes my world go round….
they can make me laugh, cry and get furious all in a matter of minuets….
they are the soul of me….my family is what makes me whole….complete
sometimes…just for a second…for a brief minute I think and I catch a glimps of the old me…the one sitting at the bar…and I have this tiny itsy bitsy urge to join her….just for a second…just for a moment in time…and it’s normally when I am having a particulary hard day…. the days where nothing goes right and you just want to lock yourself in your closet and hide from everyone...
But that thought passes through me so quickly….I see my babies faces…their smiles…hear their voice….step on their Pet Shop or one of their 92,845,023,808,0978,398 pairs of Barbie shoes and I know that I am lucky….not just on this day but on EVERY day….
Happy St Patricks Day Dear Readers!!!
~R~
i thought i would leave you with a few pictures of the girls today in their Green outifts....i had to include the 4th picture because i laugh until i snort everytime i look at Adilyn's face...what in the world!?!?!?!? that girl has me in stitches ALL THE TIME!!!!
I'm having one of those moments...where I want to be that girl back at the bar...but I'm sure by the time I go to bed I'll remember I too am the luckiest girl in the world :)
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