Elusive days

Trying to eke out the last bits of childhood before it’s gone forever.  Little moments of time when their friends aren’t looking are the part of their lives that is still mine.  Family traditions that never fail to bring them out of their shell are the spaces in which my happiness resides.  Life is full of difficult choices, compromises and change right now.  It is terrible, wonderful, frightening and exciting all at the same time.  I exist in both terror and joy, apprehension and exhilaration.