300th post

I think this officially counts as my 300th post. Wow. That's alot of sharing.

I got on tonight to talk about how introspective I'm feeling. And ready to cry.

Good/sad movies will do that to me.

I just finished watching Marley and Me and it was so spectacular in how real-life it was. The bittersweet, would-never-trade-it-for-anything-no-matter-what reality of it all touched me deeply, as well as the two main characters' committment to life, family and each other.

It was a movie, a story that gives me hope.

At one point, the girl says, "If it's give up my job or give up this, I don't want to give up this." (being mommy).

Later, she says that she doesn't regret making that decision.

Such a beautiful thing. Contentment.

I am starting to find myself having more days of being content what what I have than of wishing for other realities. Because, whose to say those realities would have the great parts that this one does? I am not willing to give them up. And whose to say the "bad" parts of another reality wouldn't be worse than the ones here?
No, here I am and here I am happy to be. I am so grateful for my children, husband, friends, family.

This is home. This is where I belong. This is home.