• Ramblings

    The Blanket Fort

    “Days will be long, but the years will fly right by…” This line from the Old Dominion song, Make it Sweet, couldn’t be more true when you think about being a parent. When my children were small, sometimes it seemed as if the day was 64 hours long. I had my children young and close together. Within a week of my twenty fifth birthday, I was the proud mother of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl, a nineteen-month-old girl and a newborn baby boy. Since being of legal drinking age, I had spent more time pregnant than not. During those early years, I was perpetually torn between praying they would all nap at…