Life advice

So we had our auction sale yesterday. It was a quickly put together deal with another family that had an estate sale. It was something that DH has been wanting to do for a couple years and the opportunity never presented itself before.

DH got rid of a bunch of farming things he wasn't using any more. An old sprayer, several grain augers, things like that.

But we decided to also sell our old camper, boat and snowmobile. I didn't have much emotions involved in the boat or snowmobile....hadn't even been on the snowmobile and the boat maybe once. They were mostly the boys toys.

Now the camper was another story. We did use it quite a lot when the boys were young. And I totally surprised myself when I cried the day I emptied it out. An image of them as youngsters popped into my head complete with fishing poles, bicycles and scraped knees and elbows. It made me realize a huge part of my life is done. I'm not a mom of kids any more but of young men with lives of their own. Which means I'm really not young any more either. I thought they would be my little kids forever but time has marched on and they've grown up apparently while I was watching but not realizing what was really going on. Bittersweet.

A word of advice. Watch closely to your life or it will slip away day by day and you will have missed it.