We've made through the BIG MOVE! A nice two bedroom castle for the three of us. No more teenagers for a while.

I was listening to a popular morning radio show on the way into work today. I'd missed the interview, but the hosts were all fired up about some self-improvement psycologist spouting his particular brand of sanity. They hooked me with a BRITE SMILE commercial and a great song by the Goo Goo Dolls. When the song ended a little light banter ensued all around (which grabbed some part of me - an ever increasing desire to grow, to change) it was question and answer time for the good doctor. A woman asked him how she could begin to develop her SELF...the part of her that is not Mom or Wife or Employee but the part that is HER. The doctor told her (and this hit so deeply in me) that if she agreed to sacrifice her hobbies, interests and desires that made her happy because she either was told by her OTHER to end those pursuits or, worse, that she assumed those pursuits ended with the new part of her life, then she sold herself down the river. If you are participating in a life you did not agree to and yet you do nothing to improve the situation (but whine about how unfair it all is) than you are doing yourself a greater dis-service than any one person could do to you.

That five minutes of talk radio made a radical change in my thinking.