Diapers, Diplomas, and Dreams

Diapers to Diplomas to Dreams

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

www.jessrocknovak.com lyrics used with permission from Jess Novak.

The time between diapers and diplomas, were indeed thousands of lives lived. Some of those lives were short and sweet, others seemed to never end (need I list the examples? You know them all—the three-year-old terrors, thirteen-year-olds with raging hormones and tyrannical teen drivers ready to take on the road… my least favorite life.)

I often think about how different life was for me as a mother of babies and toddlers compared to how it is now— a middle-aged woman standing on the sidelines of my young adult children’s lives, realizing there’s a whole other game on the playing field next to theirs. The coach over there is waving at me, “Come play! There’s a spot on the team for you!” 

I shrug and say, “Heck yeah! It’s my turn!”

I’ll be playing my own game but will always be watching the kids play their game on the field to the left. 

From diapers to diplomas to dreams- both theirs and mine.

Whoever said we only have one life to live… immediately no. We have as many lives as we choose to live and I’m ready to start living my next one.