Feel Like Sunshine

Stay close to people who feel like sunshine. ------------- I remember, when I first started this blog, all these cute little quips I'd post from #1. Not that #2 hasn't had her fair share. It's just somewhere along the way, I got older. More tired. It wasn't that I didn't pay attention. Perhaps I didn't stop to record them in the same way. What I can say with great certainty is, I was not prepared for how consuming life would be parenting a teen. The fact of the matter is, I've been absent lately. Absent from writing, because I turned my attention to other things. But a wise person told me she felt I needed to start writing again. I needed an outlet. I won't lie, I felt a new kind of fear set in. My kids are older now. Yet, I find myself wanting to be more and more open, as I can't possibly be the only parent feeling this way. What if my words helped one person? What if one person said, "I feel that way sometimes too." So, h...