If It Works, Why Not?

   Was at Walmart buying some craft supplies and cat food the other day. While in line at the checkout I notice that they had chap sticks and needing a new one I picked one out. My daughters were both with me and my oldest asked if she could get a new one too. Since she just got a new one not long ago I told her no as she didn't need it and then continued checking out and headed home.     At home my daughter left her little play purse in the kitchen and her little coin purse on the counter so I picked them up and went to put the little coin purse inside of her play purse as I called for her to come and put the items away where they belonged but I noticed something in the bottom of her play purse- A brand new stick of chap stick and not the same flavor as the one I had gotten for myself so I knew it was not mine. She stole it!!!  I was LIVID! I showed it to my husband who was also very upset. Our #1 rule in our house is to ALWAYS tell the truth and this was...

   Life has many chapters. When you look back on your life, naturally you have the ability to divide it into times or chapters of your life, such as I can remember things from when I lived in my first apartment as a chapter of my life, when I was in high school in FL as a chapter, high school in AZ as a chapter and will even look at the divide between my junior and senior year, the time while I worked at particular jobs as different chapters and even the times of when I had each of my children and the life events as different chapters.... Some chapters we miss and want to reread or as the life changes occur we resist the transition into the newer chapters...   The last week or two, I have come to view as the ending of one chapter and slow beginning of a new chapter. I have also have come to terms with this change in my life story despite of how terrified I am of the unanswerable questions that lay ahead. As I have mentioned before, my son was diagnosed with "at risk fo...