Ok, time for another one of my rambling thoughts. I've been 
     thinking about just life, relationships, day to day living. 
     Sometimes I wonder just when our home and family life changed in 
     society. 

     I know that there will always be improvements, advances in 
     technology and more for people to go and see and do and 
     experience, but is this always a good thing? What was so wrong 
     with focusing on families that were happy just being with each 
     other and with friends?

     I guess I've been thinking about this as the time comes for me 
     to be joining my love and thinking about what our future shall 
     bring us. Don't get me wrong, I'm going to want to go and get 
     out, explore and share so many things with Woody and the boys 
     and eagerly look forward to those times and outings. But I also 
     know that some of the times I'm really looking forward to shall 
     just be those nights at home.

     Sitting down to a dinner at home, talking about our days, our 
     plans for the next. Enjoying an evening of spending time with 
     the boys, laughter and smiles. Just staying home, watching TV, 
     or listening to the radio as we all do silly things. Those times 
     that we can have friends over, to laugh, to enjoy and just be 
     together in our own homes. 

     It seems so many people now days are trying to not just keep up 
     with the "jones's" but to outdo and surpass them. My simple 
     question is why do they feel the need to have elaborate homes 
     and cars if they do not spend the time to enjoy them? Or if they 
     turn them into show pieces that they are too afraid of every 
     possible spill or accident to have their friends over to enjoy 
     them?

     I too endulge in all the latest advances and happily look 
     forward to tomorrow and what may be new too...my point I suppose 
     is can't we have a happy blending of that and still hold true to 
     the home and family being the most important part of it all.

     I've had friends ask me if I'm ready for the challenge of the 
     changes that may be coming up in my life. To me those are the 
     dreams that I embrace. To have a home, happiness and love...I 
     don't care what new gadgets there are, those will come along if 
     meant to be. But for me, home is where my heart shall always be. 
     To Woody and to the boys, I look forward to this more every day, 
     I shall love them with all of my heart and the extra's in life 
     are the perks that shall make it a little richer, but the true 
     richness I shall experience shall be in the love and the time 
     together, I couldn't ask for anything better.

     I still remember the days when I was young, many of us do I 
     know. When you look back on happy childhood memories, what is it 
     that you smile about, puts joy in your heart? I miss the days of 
     being a tiny girl shadowing my grandmother about her kitchen as 
     she made me feel so important letting me help. I miss the days 
     of curling up with my mom as she read a story to me and listened 
     to all my adventures of the day. I remember running barefoot 
     through the grass tumbling and rolling with my puppy and the 
     laughter of mom as she watched, did home-made lemonade ever 
     taste that good as it did on those hot summer days?

     So yes, though I too am a child of the future, eagerly learning 
     and trying out the latest inventions, I guess I still look 
     inside and know that my center, my truth and my foundation shall 
     always be my home...with the ones I love. It's been a hard 
     roading finding out that going home does bring happiness and 
     soon I shall be going home to be with the one I love and there 
     will never be a day passes that I don't look up and 
     whisper..."thank you"...for that is the greatest gift I shall 
     never take for granted.

       

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