The random misadventures of a (formerly)Single Super Mom

I got some news this week that questions everything that I thought I knew about certain things.  Sometimes we kick ourselves for feeling like we should have known something, should have done something, should have seen something.  It's not always our fault, but that doesn't make it any easier.  All I can say is that you need to hold your children tight, tell them that you love them, always be there for them, and believe in them.  Make sure that they know that you will always be there when they need you, and to never be afraid to tell you anything, no matter how big or how small......

Remember when you were little?  And your fears were so much more "real" than they are now?  Fear when you're a child is a totally different type of fear than when you're a grown up.  When you're little you fear the dark, the monsters under the bed, the bogeyman.....When you're an adult, especially once you become a parent, your fears change and modify themselves to fit your lifestyle.  Your greatest fear becomes something happening to your children.  No parent wants to outlive their kids.  With my children beginning new chapters in their lives soon, my worries are magnifying.  Jordyn will be in High School this year, and Jarrod will be in middle school.  Is she going to have trouble with boys?  Will she fall in with the wrong crowd?  When she starts riding with friends who drive will they be safe?  When she starts driving will she be safe?  Will Jarrod transition well into middle school?  Will he lose the awkwardness yet keep the sweetness he has?  When he fin

As I sat here tonight watching the show "So You Think You Can Dance", one of the routines on there literally brought tears to my eyes.  Some things that you see, read, or hear strike such a resonant chord in your emotions that you cannot keep them inside.  Some of them make me feel some emotions so deeply that I don't even have to hear/see them; just recall them; and my eyes fill with tears.  One of them is the opening 15 minutes of the movie, "An Eye for An Eye", the one with Sally Field and Kiefer Sutherland.  The scene where her daughter is getting brutalized and murdered while screaming for her mother on the phone, and her mother having to hear that, literally tore me to pieces.  I had anxiety attacks for days after watching that.  To this day, I cannot watch that movie.  Another thing is the song "Imagine Me" by Kirk Franklin.  The lyrics are all about how someone who has so many perceived flaws, can't imagine how God or anyone else can love