Thursday, February 26, 2009

In our Thoughts....

Please keep Julie Pomerantz and her family in your thoughts and prayers during this time. Julie's mom, Hana Pomerantz passed away on Wednesday, February 25th.

The obituary can be read in today's Seguin Gazette-Enterprise.

The last email address we have for Julie is jpomerantz@longburner.com


Lavonne

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Thanks for the nudge, Lavonne. I was actually thinking on my way home from this month's school PTO meeting, how much I enjoy reading your blog and your postings and feeling just a smidge guilty that I have not posted on this site in so long. Trying to get our principal to blog....And I was thinking how much I don't enjoy PTO meetings...and wondering if the tooth fairy would remember to make a delivery to my 5-year old in celebration of his first lost tooth....

Recently, I realized how complacent I have become. Somehow, somewhere, I slipped into the ease of routine and a bubble of familiarity. It is not a bad thing, but it is something that I did not fully realize until I was faced with change. And not work change - that is old hat. But there is nothing like personal change to open your eyes.
It made me think of all of the big change milestones I have marked - that feeling of wanting certainty in times of uncertainty. I think graduating from SHS was the first of those for me - where I really felt uncertain. Not moving from Texas to AZ when I was a toddler, not moving to Texas from AZ in 4th grade, not transitioning between schools - nope - suddenly being adrift as a graduate with that big future stretching out forever in front of me...
Certainly the loss of my mother overshadowed that and was the most profound change. Graduating from UT. And then losing Daddy. Getting married. Moving from TX to CO. Having kids - still baffles me why they let me actually bring the kids home with me....
While you could never say that all of these changes were "good" - I do truly believe that change provides us with an opportunity to consider things we never would have, to do things to pop that complacency bubble....
Maybe I'll never get the PTO to put their auction on line. Maybe I'll never get the principal to create a blog so the school will have a better sense of community. Maybe some changes are too hard. But for me, I now know that I need change - whether you make the change or not, just having the chance can open your eyes.... Now I just need to see if the tooth fairy has a dollar in her purse - that's one change that deserves celebration!
What are the changes that have marked your life? What lessons have you learned about yourself or others? Kinda interesting to think about....
-M