The Roller Coaster Starts Up the Hill

Here I am starting a blog. Why? I'm not sure except that it looks like fun. It's been really cool to read the blogs of other relatives, so here I am joining the ranks. Isn't life amazing. It's so full of ups and downs and sometimes just long straight runs going as fast as you can. And once any awhile those loops that seem to make you want to scream and run away. But you blink and hold your breath and it's all over. My children are all in school this morning. Twice a week I have an hour and half break while the youngest is in Preschool, and everyone else is in school. The quiet is nice. No one saying "Mom!!!". But yet, I wouldn't trade being a Mom for anything in the world. No matter how crazy it makes me. My oldest is in college this year, and is filling out papers to serve a mission where he will be gone for two years. He'll leave in less than 6 months. How crazy that seems. I remember walking him to Kindergarten on his first day. Yesterday his car was in the shop and I had to drive him to class, he jokingly said "It's like High School with my Mommy dropping me off". Time sure flys by. All we can do is hang on, scream when we need to, laugh all the time, and enjoy this roller coaster life.