Apron Strings...and all those little crazy things...

So…this blogging thing….it’s interesting!!  I have been thinking about what to write since my first post (figuring that just 1post wouldn’t actually count as a true blogging adventure) and have wondered how this picking of topics works…

If you know me…the word RANDOM is probably coming to mind right now…and that’s where my thoughts often take me…

But I have had a recurring randomness this week, so here goes…

One of my favorite movies from the 80’s (yes…I am an 80’s child) is another John Hughes production ,“She’s Having a Baby” with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern.  Funny stuff!!  If you haven’t seen it…SEE IT!!  In the movie, there is a song called Apron Strings by Everything But the Girl….when I came to love that movie, it had an entirely different meaning…I was young, thinking ahead to starting my own family…

Apron strings…so often it implies having your kids underfoot, close in your lives, sometimes too close…it implies kids who cling to their moms maybe too much??? 

Often it is said to be a relief to “cut your apron strings”….Hmmm….

But today… I so wish my apron strings were just a bit longer and stronger…

My oldest is 18…keeps saying things like “When I move out….When I go to school…When I am  on my own”  And then he has the audacity to say phrases like “this summer…after I graduate….coming up pretty soon”….This can’t actually be true. 

I am in Denial…De Nial….Da Nile…The Nile…it’s a place in Egypt…a really pretty river!!

So what do I want for my apron strings??  STRONG, but FLEXIBLE…like stretchy enough to follow my kids on their life adventures…maybe INVISIBLE??? 

When my kids were little and so, so, so busy (so, so, so many of them all at once), I yearned for the day when they were big….

Now I wish for ROOTS and WINGS, and my special order APRON STRINGS!!!