Perspective

As most of you know, me and Bob have been working hard on adjusting to a life with 2. There have been lots of tired and snappy moments that result in arguments over time, needs, and roles. There have been times where my openness makes people nervous. I tend to just say what I need to say and process out loud. If I ever stop talking about something, that is when you will know there is something very bad going on. Because that's me. But there are also times where I get myself very worked up and upset and lose perspective.

I have had some great conversations recently with other married people, some the same age, some older, and some younger. And what has occurred to me is that we are all working through (or have gotten through) similar, if not the same, issues. Which made me realize that this is the time that you really learn how to be a family.

We had a fabulous weekend with Bob's family. Grant was unusually cooperative, we had fantastic times with family members that are not just family, they are friends, and Aid did not stop smiling the entire weekend. And there were still parenting "growing pains", as I'll call them, that happened throughout.

But I'm happy. I'm right where I am supposed to be, with who I am supposed to be with.
And when I get myself so worked up I can't see straight....I will look at this picture and it will put things back into perspective.