Growing Up

It is amazing to me how we all say time goes quickly, then the day you realize it's true you are about to be a parent to a teenager!  Lexy is on her way to her last year of elementary school!  I can hardly imagine her in middle school, which will mean Apryl is starting high school...I could just cry!  Matt and I have truly been blessed with five amazing kiddos, but our oldest two girls are not just my kiddos any more.  We talk like girlfriends, hang out, go shopping, gossip.  There are still many things I choose to not share with them and save for my more mature audience, but I am having so much fun with them!  Apryl is giving me fashion advice, which I am really enjoying.  She reads Teen Vogue, and Seventeen, thinking I need to be doing the same things.  She will tell me my horoscope which she reads from a magazine, but no boy has revealed his crush on in quite some time so I don't put a lot of stock in it!  She did however help to lose the diaper bag purse and move on to greener pastures---literally!  I now have a much more stylish bright green purse which I love! She also encouraged me to buy my first pair of heels since lord knows when!  I honestly have no idea when I will wear them, but soon I hope!  Both girls are into make-up and nail polish, all these things have reminded me how much fun it is being a girl!!  I think being immersed in the world of raising little ones, I got busy doing things other than accessorizing.  Now that the children are slowly but surely becoming more and more self sufficient I can focus on me.  I have even been toying with the idea of taking some on-line photography classes.  Thanks to my girls for breathing a little life back in to their mom!!