This Crazy Life

We’ve survived a graduation party, awards assembly, final walk through the schools, FFA banquet and GRADUATION!  I now have an adult child.  She turned 18 during high school but I think they are still a kid until they are out of school.  She’s going to continue school so officially, she’s still a kid.  But graduating definitely makes her seem less childlike.  1 down, 2 to go.  It’s been a whirlwind of a few weeks.  And I keep thinking life will calm down.  But it won’t.  Ever I don’t think.  My sick child plans on taking her GED in August.  So then I’ll have another child done with traditional school.  Then I only have 1 left.  And she’s planning on going back to school full time in person for her junior year.  Only time will tell.  But sometimes you look back and have no idea how you survived the hard things.  Whether it’s a major health crisis, or a week so busy you don’t know how you ever even had time to breathe.  But you did it.  Because you can do hard things.  And you can come out on the other side better than ever.  Now I think I need to get that engraved on my arm or somewhere I can look at regularly because when life gets you down, which it seems to have a lot here lately, it’s easy to want to quit and throw in the towel.  You aren’t sure how you can survive.  But sometimes just taking a moment to breathe and reflect is what you need.  Reminders of times past where life was hard and you still survived and are still breathing today.