Am I enough?

Am I enough?

Enough of a parent to raise well behaved children? (Depends on the day.)

Enough of a child to raise happy children? (I believe so.)

Enough of a mother to raise more than my own children? (I'm not sure.) 

Enough of a wife to make my husband happy? (Yes!)

Enough of myself to not loose myself in the title of mother or wife? (Agian, unsure.)

Enough of a "christian" to make the world wonder what I have and desire it? (Probably not!)

Enough of a joyful person to make those around me happy?  (?)

Serious enough to hold deep conversations with?  (Depends on the person.)

It recently occured to me that I have 5 really good friends.  Friends I call on when my life is falling apart.  People I really try to stay in contact with.  Am I enough of a person to have that many close friends?  The average woman has only two or three that she can call close friends.  More aquantiances of course, but not "friends" as I mean it here.  So I come back to the question, Am I enough?  I guess only time will tell.

WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Date night tonight.  Dinner and a movie without toys, or kids.  What more can I say?  Woho seems to cover it.

10,20,or life?

Marriage:  Hah! What a joke.  The "religous" would like to believe that they have this thing cornered.  Unfortianatly, the divorce rate amoung "christians" is as high or higher than that of the world around us.  WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  If we are to be the salt of the world, we are truely lacking.

Bob and I said early on that divorce would never come into our vocabulary and 10 years later we are still plucking away at it.  Looking around me I have seen so many marriages fail, most between 10 and 20 years that subconsiously, I am a bit fearful of the next ten years.  Although my inlaws split up after 27 years, so that is a concern. 

Oh well, Bob and I agree there is nothing that we can't work through.  Why don't more people try to work things out?  In the long run it is the kids who end up getting screwed.  If adults want to mess up their lives be my guest but once you have kids, I feel, that your prioritys should shift to what's best for them, and then you.  (A taboo, among Americans, but it's my blog, so I'll write how I feel.)   

Now understand that if you or your children are in danger by all means leave.  I don't support being in any type of abusive relationship, but if you can't agree over the color to paint the walls, that's just stupid.  I look around and see to many times that people are getting divorced over silly or sometimes down right stupid things, and I have to wonder why even get married in the first place?