These last couple of weeks have been full changes with my kids and I. Karlee is settled into her new room in her "house" that she now shares with 3 other girls. She moved from the student apartment that she had been living in to a student townhome. The house is huge! The rooms are huge! I'm a little jealous with her size of living space compared to itty biddy apartment. I tease but really its bigger than what I expected it to be. Anyways she is doing well with her job and soon her classes will start back up and she will be busy with school and work and living life, experiencing the college life of living with 3 girls.
Kyle announced about 3 weeks ago that he was moving out. I know its crazy to think about and so soon! Its really happening, I've seen and read the lease that he and two others will sign. He will soon be living in the area that my grandmother used to live in over by what used to the furniture barn with a big cow on it. (its now a natural food grocery store, repainted) Oddly enough I find myself excited for him, his new adventure. Of course I'm still a mom with worries and concerns but that is normal. I know he will do well. He manages things in his life, like money a-little differently than his older sister so that is a plus. He is just a different kid, and a boy and for some reason all that seems to make a difference. This coming week will be the last week I will get to wake up him in the morning for work, make sure there is food ready to eat shortly after he gets home from work, since he is always so hungry. The last week of hearing how crazy he gets when he is playing videos games. I will miss him and I'm sure there will be an adjustment for him and for me but I know and believe things will turn out and be alright.
I have to confess I am excited about having my own room again and having an actual living room! Some of you may not remember that the kids and I have lived in a two bedroom town home apartment for the last couple of years. We have gone from the girls sharing the master bedroom to me briefly having the other smaller room, to when Kyle came to live with me after their dad moved to Texas, to me moving downstairs to the living room so that he would have a room. I have made the most out of bedroom/living room space and it has worked out but seriously my bed is in the living room. But we have done what we have had to in order to make things work so its alright.
My mind has not stopped thinking about how I want to do my room, the sound of that is funny at 45 years old. I will have a closet again, I think that is the best out of it all. I've been thinking about how will I do the living room and I want to get a comfy reclining type chair. This is all fun to think about but the reality will be just Sara and I left. That is crazy, just her and I, my soon to be 16 year old driving daughter!
The dynamics around here will change some and I know she will continue to grow and enjoying the experience that high school will bring. My journey will continue on my learning more about me and living each moment to the fullest. Our lives have come a long way from when I ended my 2nd marriage, at times it just doesn't seem real.
Well what is real is planning a grocery list and doing laundry and getting ready for a new week so that is what I'm going to go do next.
Living & Loving my life.
So grateful!
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