It’s crazy to think that I have been blogging for over 12 years. I have had babies and then toddlers and then pre-schoolers and now older kids and sharing life’s ups & downs with you all has been a great experience. I am grateful for my connections and the friendships I have made.
Sometimes it’s difficult to decide what information to share with others and what you want to keep private. I’m an open book by default, but I have learned that it’s okay to be so when discussing matters that are only about me. When I share something that involves other people, I realize it’s not always my place to speak. It’s for this reason that I did not share much about my emotional turmoil in dealing with the illness of my father. I didn’t share much about my emotional turmoil because he read blogs and he told me that the worst part was to see the effect it had on his family.
As well, the way we talk about H and K is changing over time. When they were young, it was easy to talk about their early food experiences, their napping schedules, and the times I lost my temper with them. But as they grow older, their stories are less open to me. I feel comfortable talking about my experiences as a mother, but less so the specific details of their lives.
It’s the most long winded way to ever say… We got our testing results for the end of the year! Huh? Haha, yup. This was the whole point. I wanted to express how much I appreciated this annual academic review and the takeaways that I gained from it, without going into details about how each child scored in each section.