We live in a crazy, crazy world!! There are so many crazy, scary things that happen out there and I want to protect you from all of it. If I could put you in a big bubble I would or better yet keep you in a tower of a castle and keep you from the outside world - you know Tangled style!?!? But I can't.
Today after 9 long years the war in Iraq has been called to end today. In the time that we were in Iraq 4,500 U.S. soldiers have died, 32,000 wounded and it has cost the U.S. more than $800,000,000,000.00 - that's $800 HUNDRED BILLION dollars!! I don't have a big political stance but those numbers are outrageous and sickening. I am happy to say that I am really, really glad that the war is over and families can be back together as so many men and women were away from their families for years, but now this opens a whole other can of worms which I won't go into now. As a parent I just wish we lived in a much more peaceful, loving, beautiful, kind world. There is all of those things somewhere, but you have to search for them or just look past all of the negative and see the good in everything.
I was thinking about this the other day - why are parents and children's relationships strained during the teenage years? And I think I know why. I used to say to my parents all the time "You don't understand." "You don't know how it is." And even though our parents were teenagers at one point there is some truth to that. The music has changed, school curriculum has changed, people change, the world has changed.
When I was in high school it wasn't socially acceptable to be gay. Although I had two gay best friends they didn't come out until after high school. They lived in fear and couldn't be their true selves without being ridiculed, but I bet when you attend school you will have lots of gay or even transgendered friends, and this is ok of course, but that is something that I won't be able to fully relate with.
Cell phones. Oh gosh! I don't even know what to think. I didn't get my first cell phone until I was 19 years old, had a job and paid for it myself. Then texting. We didn't really text until I was like 25 years old and now that is all people do and it's sad. People are rapidly losing their social skills, they text instead of call and communicate, they Facebook or email so that they don't have to talk. People don't say "hi!", smile or make eye contact with one another anymore and it makes me sad!!
I think I was born in the wrong decade. I would LOVE to be an adult in the 50's, rocking out to Elvis, vacuuming my ranch style home in my poodle skirt and beautiful, lightly stained apron from all the homemade meals I've prepared, sipping on Martini's on the back porch every evening, calling my best friend who lives next door to talk about so-and-so's bad perm, driving a '57 Chevy, go to the Nickelodeon to see James Dean and Marilyn Monroe on the big screen, not having to lock my doors at night, not having to worry about my children playing outside or even after dark for that matter. Then you would be a teenager in the 70's and I would trade the world's influences and problems any day rather then today.
Anyway, my point is I want to show you all the beauty and love in this world but am worried I won't be able to effectively do that because it seems so few and far between nowadays. I want to teach you to love and accept everyone but how can I when so many people suck and are full of negativity and hate.
I have concluded that I will do my best to teach you, protect you, will give you all the love that I can and will always be here to support and love you. Although I may not understand all the time I will try my best! I love you so much sweet girl!
Happy 16 months!! Best 16 months of my life.
Love,
mom
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