I love the relationship I have with my son. I am always trying to learn more regarding how to raise him, my goal is to raise a strong, independent, caring, responsible and intelligent man, the kind of man that I want my daughter to find in life. I found this image which completely sums up my thoughts on the matter.
As a woman raising a son, it can be hard to ensure that he is also manly as well. I consider myself to be interested in a fair amount of things that one would not label as "girly". I do however try to avoid weapons and violence as I feel that is the wrong way to instill being "manly".......
......more to come Stay tuned :)
Ok so you have all heard me go on and on about finding true love and the Notebook as my favorite love story. Who (besides my mom) knew I would have my very own true life love story, that might I add is soooo much better than the Notebook.
For those of you that don't know the story let me fill you in. Some 11 years ago I was dating an adorable, sweet, funny, lovable guy whom I grew up with and knew since elementary school. High school was well....high school, who makes good choices in high school right? :)
I went off to college and we kept in touch on and off throughout but lost touch for years while we both started new lives, moving, marriage, kids etc...
Have you ever made a choice in life and wondered what life would have been like had you made a different choice? Well I will be honest and say that thought often crossed my mind. Do not get my wrong and think I am by any means saying I regret the path I chose at the time as now I have two amazing children with someone who I will always care about and love and who I will always consider my family. Destiny and fate are something I truly believe in and anyone that knows me knows my whole hearted belief in my motto of "everything happens for a reason". Without taking the path I did I would have never as I said had my children, and learned so much about myself and truly grown as a person as I did over the past 10 years. The past two years of my life have been an emotional roller coaster to say the least. After 7 years of not speaking to my high school love I heard from him last year, we talked and were both still not in good places in our lives. This year....was a much different story. We mutually decided a visit was in order, and you have all been witness to the count down :) Finally came the day he arrived, I came to the airport to pick him up and this is where the Notebook gets boring and has nothing on us :)
Fate, destiny, pull of the universe...whatever you want to call it......I prefer to use the term true love. What other way is there to describe when you see someone you havent seen in 7 years and know the moment you see them, run across the aiport baggage area and throw your things on the ground and wrap your arms around them and fall in love. Yup I said it :) Sounds like a movie right? Well people, it is not. It may be one day when we sell it to a movie producer, but as of right now...it is real life :)
So to answer my previous post question of does that kind of love exist that can withstand 7 years of time and 1,000 miles distance....YES! Yes it exists and you are looking at it my friends :) I can't even begin to tell you how it feels when its just RIGHT. I've always heard in my romantic movies that "you just know when its right" and yup thats true too :)
For all of you that said you have never seen it or known it....I am happy to say you can now use me as your point of reference.....
.....true, passionate, head over heels....LOVE
I am a major hopeless romantic. Fairy tales, love stories, weddings.....I love them all. I love the idea and belief in true love. True, passionate, head over heels...LOVE.
The notebook is one of my favorite movies. Yes it is partly like your basic love story but here is a little more to this story than most.
From a Facebook post this week I wrote:
The Notebook-boy meets girl, boys wants girl, girl fights the true effort, determination and love he shows her. Girl falls for boy, they fall in deep, true passionate love, they fight, they argue, they disagree, but they LOVE w all they have. Life happens...they go their separate ways for 7 years only to find their way back to each other. Girl is forced to choose between the life she is comfortable, secure and used to and what her ♥, mind and soul tell her is where she should be. So what does she do? Goes where her ♥ tells her. Does that kind of love exist? Is it more than just a novel or movie script that someone made up? My hopeless romantic self believes w all my ♥ that it does
I had a good amount of response to this and people do believe it exists but no one says they see it, are in it or have ever seen it! Why?!?! My goal...is to find it :) To be the person what when asked about this kind of love everyone that knows me will say they have now seen it.
Its not that I expect a prince charming, or an actual fairy tale but when its true pure love then you dont need all the fancy "fairy tale" things because even something as simple as laying on the couch and watching a movie, or talking on a Sunday morning over coffee will feel like your fairy tale....THAT is what I'm looking for. I found this quote the other day and it basically sums that up:
"Not all girls want prince charming and happily ever after. Some just want a man who is willing to stand by her side and ride the wave through the storm with her"
