Karen's personal space

I was talking to my married dauther Ashley tonight.  She was in one of those talkative moods.  Now mind you she is NOT a phone person.  She says what she has to say and then is ready to hang up.  She got that from her dad .  Anyway, she was talking about this and that, wanting to know what to get her Dad for his birthday in May.  I mentioned something but told her it would be way to much money, I told her about how much and she "No, I can do that".  As I sit here and think back over the last couple of years my mother's mind takes me back to when she was just a little girl and how she grew up way to fast.  She was married in August of 2006, almost 9 months now.  She has matured SOO much in the last 9 months.  She has learned that it's NOT all about her, that others have a part in this thing called life.  I look back to just 1 1/2 years ago when she was in the middle of being sooo in love and Mom and Dad didn't have a clue to how she felt, she thought.  Mom and Dad were going bonkers because we wanted so much for her to make the right choices that would effect her life forever.  Chuck and I had to be tough at times, ,even though it broke out hearts to cause her unhappiness, but we knew it was for her own good.

 

It's nothing new....it's just called being parents of teenagers.  Well,  back to our talk, (me and Ashley) she was saying to me that, "Teenagers just don't realize what their parents sacrifice for their kids just to raise them and that kids don't appreciate their parents until they have grown up and move out and tackle life on their own".