This is a question I often think about - what am I going to do when my babies are all grown up? They are my world.
Now that *babies* are grown with babies of their own I find I have way to much time. I miss the three-ring circus I had when they were all home and involved and I never had enough time --- Now I write on blogs --- I'm beginning to find a creative side I didn't know I had. Your question is one all mothers ponder --- and one all mothers find the answer to.
Nicely written.
It is amazing how much parents, especially mothers, can get rolled up into the lives of their children. I know it was incredibly hard for my Mom at every stage of my aging process. She kept buying me dress shirts with a necksize I hadn't worn in three years until I fobid her from buying me any more. I am glad for her now that my sister and I have kids, because "mother" is just who my Mom is. She has others aspects of her life that matter to her and that interest her, but being a mother and grandmother come first for her.
I've enjoyed all of these posts on the 100 word challenge, but this is the first I just had to comment on. Sorry for the random reply.
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I think women have struggled with this through the ages. The struggle to not lose oneself in our children, and our overwhelming love for them that makes it joyous and fulfilling to do so. It makes us fear WHO we will be once our children are gone.
Rest assured you will never regret all the time you gave, all the sacrifices you made, etc. But also know that there will come a time when you should go out and discover yourself.
faster and faster, indeed. MQ wants me to walk her INTO school each morning, which means make-up every day. Sigh.
And hominy? apparently that's what was in my really yummy Mexican soup. according to my sister in law anyways. who knew?
Boy, this is me today, as school started. Except for the going-to-school part, as none of my kids wanted me there with them this morning.
I love this 100 Words. I have been there. I know that feeling.
I'm starting to think about what I want to be when my kids, oops, I mean when I grown up. They will be in pre-school and 1st grade this year. I'm seeing the light at the end of the new-Mommy tunnel.
Great 100 words!
What it means for your future is you still have one. Just some lag time before the giggles of a new generation of kids who call you grandma.
Have been there myself...
Of course, mine are 12 and 3. 8 years ago, I embarked on a voyage I thought was going to (a) finally bring us out to Colorado (where we've planned to live for ages it seems like now---only 13 years though) and (b) get me into a Library Science program. You can do the math on that...but it's allowing my writing self to come out, which is actually something I had always seriously wanted. So I'm pursuing that while waiting for baby #2 to be old enough for mommy to feel comfortable with outside educational sources (for him). That should happen in about a year (4). That's how old she was. 
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