Speak Now

Oh, it's been so very long! Have you missed me? It's crazy that October is nearly over. We have been very busy with things (mostly fun things, for sure) but it has been awhile. One of the fun things we did during the last part of September was to take the girls to Taylor Swift. Over the course of the last year, we have all become fans at our house and the girls got tickets to her concert for their birthdays. Remember this???

Well, on September 28th, those birthday tickets became real. We dropped the boys off at Grandma Homer's for the night and took our girls for a night out on the town. They both donned their Taylor Swift tee-shirts that I had gotten the "fan club exclusive" on and we took them to dinner at The Melting Pot. Now you have to know, I happen to love fondue anything! Matt, not so much, but he took one for the team this night.

The girls LOVED it! It was so much fun to try different things and the dessert was heavenly. I almost have Matt convinced he should take me back "just because."

After dinner, we were off to the concert at the Energy Solutions Arena. The stage was fantastic and I loved the way the show progressed. It had a very upscale, magic show/circus vibe. There were trapeze artists and awesome lighting and fireworks. Her costumes were many, and fabulous and MODEST, which thankfully, the girls noticed. She sang most of the songs from her latest album and a few from the past. I was amazed to notice that my girls knew almost every single word.

Going to this concert with the girls was such an awesome experience. Not only because we love her music and the concert was wonderful, but the whole evening gave us such insight into the lovely young ladies our daughters are becoming. As the girls have gotten older and the little boys have joined our family, it has become harder to spend time and do things with "just the girls." On this night, I was taken back a bit to when the girls were both little and we had so much fun with them.

I was also impressed with the progress we've made as parents with our daughters. Not impressed like "aren't we awesome parents?" But impressed by how much we have changed because of them and how much they have changed for the better in spite of us. They are such good girls. They are nice, they are funny, they are smart and they have the whole world ahead of them. I am so excited and so honored that I get to be their mother and be on this journey with them. There are times that I feel like giving up, and heaven knows I give in more than I should, but I hope that by the time these sweet girls are old enough to strike out on their own, they, themselves, understand and appreciate their full potential and that they realize how special they are.

At the end of this night, Taylor did a song that I had listened to a bunch on her CD, but I'd never really thought about much. It has a line in it that just grabbed me:

"It was the end of a decade, but the start of an age."

It really made me think that the time I have spent over the course of the last ten years raising and trying to train these girls is about to pay off. I am so excited to see what the future brings with these girls. They have the whole world at their disposal and are so ready to seize their future.