Eleven

Happy Birthday to my baby.  Madeline will be 11 tomorrow (8/27).  She's a great kid and growing up way too fast.  I should have taken my father-in-law's advice years ago and kept her in a drawer so she wouldn't grow.

Parenting is 10% making actual decisions and 90% second guessing and agonizing over your decisions.  None of us are perfect at it.  It's a continuous, painful struggle.  I'm sure that people without children age much slower than those with children.  I wouldn't change it though.  They're worth every grey hair and every tear.

Peace-
Matt

Watershed

Things happen, it's just how it is.  We don't know why.  We can speculate.  Most of us do.  Maybe there isn't a why, maybe there is. 

Sometimes these "things" that happen are watershed moments.  Points in time that bookmarked.  There are two periods to every watershed moment.  Before it and after it.  That's exactly how we think of it too, before and after.  Before I met Angie.  After Robby died.  After 9-11.  I think you understand.  We all have our own watershed moments.  Some we share with others, some are only for us. 

These moments define us.

Peace-
Matt