What Do I Feel Certain About Today?

Today I feel certain that I will hold my children tighter. I had to experience a heartache with my children today after discovering the little boy that we had helped search for had actually been killed by a family member. Today I am certain that these three lil' people above are my world. I am certain that I could not imagine my life without them. I am certain that everything that I do, I do for them. I have come to realize that even when what I am doing is all about myself that it is actually to make me better for them. When I am chasing my dreams, it is to teach my children that they should always chase theirs. Today I am certain that almost my entire life exist in just one picture above. 

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Husbands before Children

I take no credit for the photos above. New York, Greece, Cozumel, Bali, and San Francisco. 

          I had a friend many years ago that told me that when it comes to her marriage and her relationship with her husband it always comes before her children. When I first heard this, I was appalled. My whole life I had heard my mom say to people, "My children come first." This is the way that I had always lived my life from the time I had a kid (at the ripe old age of 17). I could not believe that this friend was telling me this. How can you put anyone or anything in front of their children??

          Well I think that I have finally realized that this friend of mine was on to something. I have an abnormally strong marriage. Donny and I joke that there has to be something wrong with us because we have been together for way to long to still like each other so much. Donny is my world, and my life definitely revolves around him, BUT..... I have always clung to my children.