Glory Days

I haven't posted in forever! This is kind of a weird one to come back with but it's been on my mind.

Have you heard that song by Eric Church....Springsteen? It always makes me think about how people get lost in their "Glory Days." I didn't really understand why for a while.....DUH....the song he is referring to is Glory Days! I'm smarter than your average bear. These are some of my favorite songs....songs that talk about the past. I LOVE Bucky Covington's A Different World. Time sure have changed in such a short amount of time......or it seems short to me. Which is kind of my point; everything changes. All you can count on is change. Soooo.....I really don't care for people trying to relive their so-called "Glory Days." It kind of makes me sad really.....these people had the best time of their lives in high school or college. There is  A LOT of life after that. I have to say I was thinking about it and, right now, these days with my babies, these are my "Glory Days." I don't really every feel like I was part of the "cool kids" or whatever, but thinking back that was my own choice. My choice made because I was too into guys which I hope my daughters don't do. I was friendly with everybody though so I feel like I have several good aquaintances that were cool kids. LOL!  I played ball and was in band in middle school and high school. I started my 8th grade year, I was scouted my 9th grade year and started J.V., and started Varsity as a junior. We got a new coach when I was a sophomore and I let her take away my love for the game.....I let her....that was stupid. I didn't play my senior year because I didn't really mesh with her. I would have started. I would have gone to college and played. I gave up band for basketball my senior year and really I loved band much more and I think I may have played in college had I chose that but I didn't. Even though I didn't play my senior I was still offered scholarships by Berry College, Georgetown College (not University), Eastern and Western Kentucky University. I played a lot of AAU which got me way more exposure than high school ever thought about. I didn't play basketball in college. I picked a small, private college.........and I cheered:) Yes, you read that right. LOL! It was fun for me though and I didn't want stress. I had spent a lot of time training to cheer and ultimately picked basketball in middle school but I did have a strong background in cheer which led me to pick cheer in college. It was such a small college I was actually able to make the team. I was in a sorority....Chi Omega! Then after 1 semester I left. I had planned on getting an ROTC scholarship and there was a 20% chance that wasn't going to happen and tuition was $24k/year. Oh well.

I feel like I could definitely live in my "Glory Days." I could regret my life's decisions and just live in those days. I don't. Not for one second. I'm just now about to finish school and get my Bachelors. When I graduated high school I had already taken so many college courses that when I started college I started as a sophomore......and I'm just now finishing. Jeez! Ha! You know what though? My "Glory Days" are right now. I have made some really horrible choices in my life but without them I would not be where I am and I LOVE where I am. Right now I have two beautiful and healthy little girls that make me smile every single day. I am blessed enough to be able to have spent the majority of the last 3.5 years home with Victoria and then Emily. I have a husband that supports me and loves me and I know that I can count on him to be my rock and my best friend forever. These are for sure my "Glory Days." These are the days I don't want to end (until it's 6:30 pm and I have 2 cranky little girls ready for bed). We play and have fun and God has blessed me many times over. I really don't understand why people live in the past when the future is so bright and the now is so full of promise.

So, I like the song because it's catchy but I don't ever want to be that person pining over yesterday (even if I do miss my Victoria being a baby I wouldn't turn back the hands of time for anything).

Next post will be pictures of Emily at 6 months!! She's growing! Next week she's getting her ears pierced and she turns 7 months so I will for sure post about those as well!