When things are just right

Over the past ten years it seems that so much has changed and fast........... I cannot wrap my head around how my kids have grown and how my relationship with my husband is (if this is even possible) stronger than ever. Our family is not very religious, but we do have faith in family, friends and ourselves to be better people. Our values are high and strong. My kids are 17 and 14 and they are well rounded and overall just great kids. I am not saying this because I am biased, I say this because it is what I hear all the time from friends, teachers, other parents and just people in general who come in contact with them. Yes my feathers are all blown out right now!! I love my kids dearly and in times where kids are involved in social media and TV-pg13 is more like the 1990's rate R movies, they are still the all american kids. I myself am a throw back. I feel most of the time I was born in the wrong era....My husband loves this about me. I love to cook, canning, baking, crafting, sewing and painting of my many things. Most of the relationships we see around us do not have the commitment to values or just to family. There is always one half that is not the same as the other half, but with that being said all relationships are not 50/50. Sometimes you have to carry 100% even when your plate is full. That is what family is supposed to be about. There is no line. It is give and take. I get up every morning at 5am and make my husbands lunch, I cook dinner, I do the laundry and take care of the inner workings of the house while my man works 40+ hours at two jobs to my one. I think my Mrs Cunningham's (from the Happy Days) outlook keeps us as the true family unit. I moved to MA 10 years ago from Florida, at the time I thought it was to move to be near family (cousins and such) so that my kids could grow up playing with their cousins just like I did... When I got here it was so far off from what I expected. That whole grass greener on the other side thing is very much the truth, but what I can tell you is it did bring my family closer, just the one under our own roof. I do see like a couple of the family members outside our roof, of course it is the one that is not a true cousin. She is my partner in crime and I love her. I just could not and still cannot believe the way my cousins are just not in touch anymore, they say scandoulous stuff about each other and have lost what we grew up on. Don't get me wrong, I am to this day very glad we moved here and would not return (even though I left my mother and brother behind). I love them dearly but this journey just makes sense. I know things are not right with the world, but its nice to know that with all that is going on (depression, war, suicide, unemployement, bullying, etc...) Things are just right at home! With as much love and support I can spread Tina