Now what?

I created this blog to show a friend how easy it is to have a blog! Now I need to decide how I want to use it. Maybe I will blog the journey I'm about to undertake with my younger daughter, my baby. We have been SO close all of her life, and now we are getting her ready to send off to college. I feel like my whole identity is about to be thrown into a whirl! First, I lost my ability to work through a random accident which fractured my back. That was 14 years ago. Four spinal fusions later I am fused T10-L5 and C3-C7. That's a lot of fusion. I live with constant pain, and memory loss from the medications. It CAN be a bummer, but I have focused on my identities as wife, mother, artist and friend. I have been VERY lucky in love. My husband, Liam, and I have just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. We've been married more than half of our lives, and I wouldn't change it for the world. I'm currently reading the book (with my daughter Emily, who is leaving) called, "I'll Miss You, Too." It is by a mother and daughter, Margo E. Bane Woodacre, MSW, and Stephanie Bane. I'll write about how that is as I write about this journey. It's kind of funny, Emily called my COUNSELOR - she was breaking an appointment for her sister, Shannon, and she TOLD the therapist that she and I would be needing some sessions because she was leaving home and she did not think this was going to be a NORMAL transition! She wants to be an art therapist when she is finished with college, no surprise!