12-Days And Counting!!!

*Here is a "to-do" list of our next couple of days:
5/18: Rotary Scholarship acceptance lunch at the Lafayette
5/20: Senior PROM!
5/21: Misty's Graduation party!
5/22: Senior Recognition assembly at the HS
5/25: Track banquet and Senior recognitions
5/23-5/25: Senior exams = stressed out, grumpy Misty! ;-(
5/28: GRADUATION!!! {Whoa! The Big Day!!}

~Yes! I am just alittle stressed out!!! But all in all I think I will be OK as long as I'm staying busy, which I am of course!
I think once this is all over and done with that it will hit me like a ton of bricks that "the life" I have been so used to for the last 14- or so years is over and a new chapter has begun.
As I always say, "You cannot control what life throws at you but only your reaction to it and how you deal with it!", so I am trying to look at everything in a positive sense and that everything has a reason.

I remember, as a young mother, the things that seemed so important at the time, the things we placed such value on and how trivial they seem now. If I had it ALL to do over again, {which I wouldn't if given the choice!} I probably would have not stressed on the little things so much, argued with other parents {Haha! At least the ones that really didn't deserve my time and effort!!}, and spent more time just enjoying the simple things! There's really not too much I would have changed because I think everything happens for a reason and in the longrun it all makes sense. We've come a long way to get to this point in our lives and sometimes the road has been abit rocky but we've always managed to survive and make the best of it!

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking this sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it;
Trusting that you will make all things right if I surrender to your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life, And supremely happy with you forever in the next."
Amen!