When I started on this journey called motherhood, I never realized how hard it would be to let my kiddos grow up. And had you told me 14 years ago that I would cry at the thought of them leaving home, I would have laughed. Of course, that was in the thick of the diaper/temper tantrums/painting the carpet red stage of parenting.
But now that I am past those early days of motherhood, I am finding the ones ahead to be equally as challenging, only in different ways.
We reached another of those stop and reflect milestones when Leah turned 15. She wanted to spend her birthday doing something fun, so we went camping to Hayes Lake. It happened to be Memorial Day weekend, and as we are often last minute planners, we failed to realize it would be a busy camping weekend.
Needless to say, we ended up in the group campsite, as the site we planned to go to said it was reserved (of course no one came that night, as we found out the next day.)
We had a relatively mosquito-free trip (for Hayes that is) full of softball, fishing, canoeing, smores, and just plain getting away from the world and relaxing.
I'll have to post the rest of the pictures after I grab them from Steven's phone.
We went home and finished the celebration with cake, ice cream and presents. Leah's favorite present was her cowboy boots. She now wants to be a rancher and own a billion horses to spite her parents who won't even get her one.
She also actually enjoyed going out to eat with her parents for her traditional birthday dinner.
Happy birthday Leah, you are amazing!
I'll have to post the rest of the pictures after I grab them from Steven's phone.
We went home and finished the celebration with cake, ice cream and presents. Leah's favorite present was her cowboy boots. She now wants to be a rancher and own a billion horses to spite her parents who won't even get her one.
She also actually enjoyed going out to eat with her parents for her traditional birthday dinner.
Oh wait...(she really enjoyed those fries)
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