The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

In what feels like a different lifetime, I wrote a blog regularly. It was called “Giggling Universe” with the tag line that “we plan and the universe giggles”. Plans don’t always go the way we expect. I had 3 very young daughters (ages 8, 2 1/2 and 8 months when I began). I worked in an office. I was married to my high school sweetheart.

Recently I have had several people either remind me of that blog or ask if I write. I took that as a sign that perhaps I should be writing again.

I’m in an entirely different place now. I think that my original blog title was the perfect title because I definitely had plans….and the universe most definitely thought those plans were laughable.

I am now the mother of a young adult and 2 high school daughters (ages 23, 17, and 15). I am a 2nd grade teacher. I am divorced.

I recently saw this on Facebook.

And my first thought was “uh…yeah…” and then I thought “that’s pretty much all of life, not just parenthood.”

We’ve all been driving somewhere and make a wrong turn and the GPS says it’s recalculating, which is really just a nice way to say “You screwed this up and now I’m going to fix it for you.” Occasionally my GPS doesn’t understand that I’m doing exactly what it told me to do and it says recalculating anyway….and puts me right back on the road I was already on. At that point though, it has my attention and I’m paying closer attention because I don’t want to be on the wrong road. And sometimes, I’m on a road and make a conscious decision to make a change in route and my GPS recalculates.

I don’t always know what the right road is. I don’t always know how to parent. I don’t always do the right thing. I don’t always make the right choices. But, deep in the center of my being, in my heart of hearts, I WANT to be on the right road, I WANT to parent the right way, I WANT to do the right thing. I also know that recalculating doesn’t mean I was necessarily doing it wrong the first time, but sometimes I get new information and I can choose a new way and recalculate my path.

This blog will likely be me figuring those things out. Processing “out loud” so to speak. And…it’s likely that this will evolve as I go. So feel free to comment with any thoughts you have along the way, ask questions, or just take it in…in any case I’m glad you’re here and I’m excited about writing again.