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Feeling very Scarlet O'Hara today. Fiddle-de-dee and all that stuff. Not the least bit interested in things that require actual deep thinking. Like complete sentences. Not making any of THOSE today either!

I attended a birth last Friday. It was fab-u-liscious!! I loved this couple and the way they worked together for their goal of a beautiful natural birth with no drugs. None for them, none for me, and especially none for that baby. And oh! What a handsome, alert, vocal and LARGE baby he is! I was so proud and honored to be there and witness his arrival into the world.

My Rachel Pie is leaving again. She is traveling and then heading back to school for her final semester. Woo Hoo!!! Then come the big decisions, staying for graduate school, working, working and going to school together, coming home and working or going to school or both, or whatever is behind Door #3. All these possibilities and only one life to live. What to do, what to do. Personally, I am of 2 minds on this and my opinion doesn't really count so I will tell you what they are.

1. She should come home and go to school here and live rent free.
2. She should spread her wings and go further afield and see what else is out there before she gets to the age of settling down and never gets to do that.

See, 2 sides of the coin. The practical, let's save some $$ side and the not-practical go where the wind takes us side.

On the other side, Sparky has decided to move back home and go to school full time to pursue his degree. Maybe that whole "nature abhorrs a vacuum thing" is what's happening? Rachel Pie is about done with school so it's Sparky's turn to be studious.

My first thoughts and wishes for both of them are that they are happy, healthy and doing what they love. But then I watch Suze Orman and all I want them to do is SAVE EVERY FREAKING PENNY THEY COME ACROSS!! There will be no social security to care for them when they are old and they better start putting aside for that rainy day now. How scary is that? We would love to make it so that they don't have to consider these things but since we are not Rockefellers or Vanderbilts, that is the way of the world.

My new motto is "Instead of trying to have more and more things make you happy, try to enjoy the freedom of being happy with less." Surely, someone has said that more eloquently than I.

Here's to a summer of the revolving front door! One in, the other one out. Someday, hopefully, good Lord willing and the creek don't rise, BOTH of them will be home again at the same time. :)