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Life after children may not be all that it's cracked up to be.  They certainly would have come in handy to help me set up this binary log!  But they've all flown the coop so I'm blundering my way through.

After a day of packing and downsizing(finally threw out the pair of size 8 jeans I've accepted I'll never fit into again) I'm sitting here with a drink on the table beside me and a computer on my lap.  I could never have pictured this scene when I started raising my children 26 years ago.  Actually, I could have pictured the drink-I often told my children they were driving me to it!- but not this casual use of a technology that has confused and frustrated me for over 20 years.

So, this is where I am; closing a chapter of my life, 26 1/2 years of raising children.  They have been the most intense, most difficult, most rewarding, most joyful years of my life.  I wouldn't change them for all the tea in China, or all the diamonds in Africa.  I will be a parent until my death and beyond, but I am finished raising children-yipee!

I'm starting a journey.  I'm going to find myself, follow my heart, live my passions.  It's time to start doing all the things I've been telling my girls to do for years.  It's time to put my money where my mouth is!  I'm scared, but I'm really excited too!