Life Updates

Where to begin? So much has happened within our family lately it is almost hard to believe, at least for me. After being gone for most of April, Texas, Toledo, Cleveland, and Toledo again April was over before I knew it. When I got home it seems as if everything changed. Evan moved out, Hilary has now finished school and she is already working in a salon. Vito has his drivers license and a beard. Before long it will just be Bob and I. I know we have a few years left with the Hilary and Zach being at home but before I know it they will be on their own too. This is what we have worked towards with our children. To raise them to be self sufficient, to love what they do and who they are. It appears as if it is working. I have to admit that it is a bitter sweet emotion, to know that they are able to stand on their own. It's great to see but yet still hard to watch. I still wish we had the ability to make some of their choices for them, like when they were little, but we can't. We pray, we watch and we wait. People always said, enjoy them when they are young,it's gone before you know it...they didn't lie...I wish I had understood the full impact of that statement then, like I do now.