Nest & Launch

I discovered a new blog that I love.  Nest & Launch (http://nestandlaunch.com/)  is written by two 40 something mothers like me who are raising tweens, teens and young adults.  They have such great advice and insight into how we prepare our kids to be independent and live on their own after high school.  Here is a quote from one of my favorite posts:

"First, relax and enjoy your children. 99% of them turn out all right anyway. Just let your memory go back to all the obnoxious little boys and girls you used to know and think of them now. They're not delinquents. They're married now and going to work each morning, coming home at night to work in the yard, play with their children, go out with friends. They don't get their names in the papers as the 1% who are delinquents do, but they are the salt of the earth and yours will be among them, so love them and stop worrying. 
"Especially ease up on the oldest one. My, we expect a lot of the first one. We set out to show the world what we can do, and it is a wonder they survive at all with all our constant, erratic, unreasonable supervision. It is a good thing that children are resilient and so loyal. They forgive and love us anyway." 

I sure hope Paige will forgive us someday.  This parenting thing is not as easy as I imagined it would be.