make it through the teen years with my sanity intact, and always be close to my kids

two kids have moved out of the house but I still have a 15 and 12 year old to deal with…....... sometimes I feel like this parenting is never ending, I enjoy and love my kids but need some time to do things solo. A place of my very own, all by myself looks so attractive right now :)

Moved Isabella down to her new apartment in the city yesterday. she starts school on Tuesday…......... I feel a sense of accomplishment for raising such a wonderful “kid”. Down to two kids at home now! It’s a piece of cake :)

has just broken up with his girlfriend of two years and has decided to take a year off from university. Why am I feeling so stressed out about all of this? :) because even though he is 20 I am his Mom!

she turned 18 today. Gawd I love her :)

daughter I. just finished her course and is now a certified life guard. She got a job right away and is hoping to get into a human kinetics program in September in the city. She has her “shit” together! Sometimes I feel like she has it together more than I do at the sweet age of 17. She is amazing! I love her!

TWENTY! I guess he is officially out of the teen years and I just can’t believe I have a twenty year old. It is a fantastic feeling. I love him to bits…... he is an amazing human being :).

Isabella just finished high school…... she was an early grad. Wow! Two kids done two to go :) . My sanity is intact these days when it comes to the kids.

I dropped eldest son G off at university residence yesterday. It is his second year of uni but he lived with his grand parents last year. I thought I would be OK with this but when we got there….. the room was SO small, he just looked so alone when we left him. I just hope he will be okay. I hope he makes friends….. I hope he gets involved with the different sports….I hope he is happy. And I have to go through this with three other kids :( . I feel so emotional it is ridiculous.

gee, why limit this goal to just the teenage years? May as well encompass the tween years as well. Had an elevan year old sleepover birthday last night. Whenever I do something like this I always swear never again. And then my memory fails me and I get sweet talked into it. I don’t think I got a wink of sleep last night, and right now at 2 43 in the afternoon I have three stragglers sleeping on various couches. At four in the morning they were running around outside “quietly”, jumping on the trampoline, and various other non sleep related activities. Lot’s of fun.

just got her drivers license yesterday. She has her N ! This is a big deal for me. I finally have someone to help out driving, doing errands and running kids around here and there, plus for her it gives her independence. This was an exciting day for her. She got 100% in her test and beat her two year older brother to the punch. He has failed the test twice so far.