Kids......

As a parent of three children at various stages of growing up....one 26......one 22.......one 12........ At each stage of their "growing up" years we always looked to when it would get easier.

When we were getting up with them during the night it was, "this is going to get easier when they sleep through the night."

When they were sleeping through the night it was, "this is going to get easier when they can get up and get themselves around in the morning."

When they were in middle school and we were making multiple trips to get them to school, practices, dance class, baseball, etc. it was "when they can start driving themselves around it will get easier."

When they were old enough to drive it was, "when are they going to get home" as you stay up remembering the last time that you were up in the wee hours feeding them and thinking it would be easier when they were older.

When they are old enough to leave home, you worry about their safety, their employment, their travel, their decisions, their consequences, and the list goes on.

Being a parent brings with it sleepless nights, worries and joy...... at some point one must let go and just embrace the joy. Being a parent is a work in progress...kind of like being a kid.