The end of the year is almost here and I have to admit I'm looking forward to 2011 slipping away quietly. The year had it's challenges, but; what I did learn from it is this, the moment you conceive a child they are their own little person. You may feel as though this bundle is just an extension of yourself but truly they are unique beings who were their true selves before even taking their first breath.
We can guide our children to make the right choices, but it's up to them to take what lessons you gave them and grow. My children are remarkable, sometimes maddening, sometimes mesmerizing. I can just sit and watch them, a bystander in awe of what I created.
My oldest turned nineteen this year. He has a girlfriend and doesn't yet know what he wants to do with his life.He'll figure it out but I know that after years of trying to direct him; it's his turn to take wheel. My fifteen year old continues to suprise me, he looks at me and I just can't help noticing how mature he's become. The girls are now 24 and 22. They're still children in my eyes, although I'm slowing evolving to the fact that they are young adults who make their own choices in life, because that's how it goes. Individual people, my lesson for 2011 is it's time for me to cut the umbilical cord and let them be who they were meant to be.
