[Tina21]

I have always been fairly strict when it comes to my expectations of my kids. Well strict by todays standards. I see so many parents who allow their adult children to live at home, work part time, leave school and contribute nothing to their families well being. I insisted that both of my children had to do one of a few things, full time school, full time work and pay room and board or part time school and part time work and pitch in a small financial contribution. So they both left home in pursuit of greener pastures. This weekend they both moved home with the plan of going back to school.

It has been a bit of an adjustment. After the girls moved my husband and I went and bought all new furniture. Within 10 minutes of being back home my youngest managed to scrape and scratch the table top of our brand new dining room. She dumped and pushed two very heavy boxes onto the table. Sigh---this is why we didnt replace our furniture until they moved.

They were sweet enough and considerate enough to decide to share a room thereby allowing me to continue to keep a sewing room. I used to have the largest of the two bedrooms aside from the master as my sewing room but I gave that to the girls. I am now in the midst of an unholy amount of fabric, ribbon, buttons and all the other craft and sewing supplies. I figure it should take me a week to get back on track lol.

Even though my table is ruined and chaos reigns for the next while I am so glad that they have decided to pursue an education. It was beyond difficult to stand by my beliefs when it meant my girls leaving home. Looks as if it has paid off though and that they will have a better life and a more fulfilling one than they would have had if we expected nothing of them. So its a happy and bittersweet day, I will miss my perfect dust and dirt free home but when they move the next time hopefully it will be because they are moving towards something better.