Life Before.....

It is finally summer vacation and I am TRYING hard to rest. I have a couple of weeks off and then I will be doing Kentucky Reading Project for the last two weeks of June. I am very excited about this and I am looking forward to it. I will also be hosting a book club  for 4th and 5th grade students through 4-H for a week in July. I am excited to be supporting summer reading. That was such a big part of my life as a child and my own children's lives. 

While Lyndsey and I were sitting in the living room this week, she was emptying her camera of hundreds of pictures and she came across a picture of she and me from Labor Day 2010. I could tell how much she had changed and matured this year, but I didn't want her to know that! What she said was "Here is a picture of you and me before you were sick." Now, we all know that I had MS then too, but I asked her if I looked different now, I needed to know! She said "No, but it was just different then."
I know that this has changed me, physically and emotionally, but I don't think anyone ever thinks much about how it changes a family.  Until this year, I have never missed an event that one of my children were a part of,  now I have to usually get the recap from Aaron. Many evenings I am too tired to go, and if you knew me "when" you know how much that bothers me. 

Labor Day 2010

Labor Day 2010

Summer break is going to be not just a good time to rest, but hopefully a good time to make more memories.