THESE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING

First, I'd like to thank everyone who commented on my last blog post. The winner of WHO DARES WINS: The Green Beret Way to Conquer Fear and Succeed by Bob Mayer is E.A. West. I really hope you enjoy the book!

I recently joined FaceBook and I think every person I used to know in HS has come out of the woodwork. It's kind of strange. People I haven't seen in like 25 years. When did I get old? It's strange, but it's nice too. We were all kind of crazy back then. Well, some still are, but most of us turned out ok. Have jobs. Families. Bald heads. Gray hair. Children. Grandchildren even. Crazy.

The world has changed so much since I was a teenager. I learned to type on a typewriter. Heck, my first teaching job I taught Advanced Typing on a typewriter/processor. Computers were just starting to enter homes and schools. I was learning as I was teaching. Now my kids have to teach me about ipods and well, FaceBook. We live in times where technology has made things easy, maybe too easy. We sit in front of our computers and IM, or text on our phones. Things are just different.

But some things are just the same. Like Senior Ball. I right of passage. The first all-nigher (at least in this house hold). I stood and watched as about 26 young men and women tried to organize one big photo shoot. I listened to parents lecture their kids about safely, driving, and reminding them that the prom is alcohol free and they are not legal anyway.

I watched my daughter and her date drive off. Next year she goes to college. I think it just hit me how different my life will be. It's another turning point. Something new. Something to get used too. Only two hockey teams to manage instead of three. Only two kids to get to school instead of three. It will be a big change for her as well. Mom won't be there to make her crapes and strawberries when she's blue. Mom won't be doing her laundry. Mom won't be hovering over her every move.

We got through different points in our lives. Everything changes. Yet, in an odd way, it all stays the same.