Moving Forward. That is a concept I have been taught since I was young.\u00a0 Whenever I went to my father or my Grandfather for advice in life they would always tell me, \u201cJust keep moving forward.\u201d It was the solution to almost every problem I would take to them, and over time I began to understand why.\u00a0 We go through a lot in life.\u00a0 We go through change and hard things and loss and sorrow and happiness and joy and then change again. It is a never ending stream of changes in our lives.\u00a0 And whatever changes come, and no matter how difficult they are, the best thing we can do to maneuver them is to just keep moving forward.\u00a0 Somehow when we move forward we find ourselves getting through it \u2013 when we move forward we get through hard times. When we move forward we cope with change. When we move forward we progress and progressing is what life is for.<\/p>\n
This last week was a good one for me.\u00a0 Last weekend was my birthday and my husband and my two kids took me to Phoenix to spend time together and then I took my kids to the One Direction concert which I wrote about last week.\u00a0 We had an amazing time with our children and it was so nice to spend four days with them because I have missed them so much since they left to college. Then on Wednesday the kids flew back to school and my husband and I flew to Lake Powell to join four other couples for a couple\u2019s only trip on our friend\u2019s houseboat.\u00a0 I was so sad to say goodbye to the kids\u2026I hated to see them go again because it was so great to spend time together.\u00a0 But I knew they had to get back to their classes and we had to get to Powell to meet our friends.\u00a0 This was going to be our first time to Powell without any kids with us and I wondered if it would make me feel even sadder that I am an empty nester now, but that is not what happened at all.\u00a0 We had a fantastic time with the other couples and it was so fun to spend time with my husband as a \u201ccouple\u201d rather than \u201cmom and dad\u201d, if that makes sense.\u00a0 We were like a couple on a group date and it was awesome!\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love being \u201cmom and dad\u201d more than anything, but I am realizing that this next chapter of life is going to allow my husband and I to be more of a \u201ccouple\u201d again and we get to go on dates and couples trips and all kinds of fun things.\u00a0 And so maybe this life of being an empty nester wouldn\u2019t be ALL bad after all\u2026<\/p>\n
I love the quote in the title of today\u2019s blog:\u00a0 \u201cYou can\u2019t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 It is such a great reminder that we need to let go of holding on to the past and instead start moving forward to the future with hope, anticipation, and excitement for the positive things that are going to come, because they will indeed come if we watch for them. \u00a0\u00a0I am grateful for the fun week I had last week and for the reminder it provided me to stop re-reading the past chapters of my life as a mom and start living the next chapter of my life with full force and excitement.\u00a0 Life is amazing and wonderful and a truly grand adventure.<\/p>\n It’s the beginning of a fantastic new week! \u00a0Let’s live it to the fullest!!!<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moving Forward. That is a concept I have been taught since I was young.\u00a0 Whenever I went to my father or my Grandfather for advice in life they would always tell me, \u201cJust keep moving forward.\u201d It was the solution to almost every problem I would take to them, and over time I began to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1021,204,2164,4382,280,91,4245,240,4569,2965,3447,650,4226,3104,3095,92,1727,571,7,30,364,76,180,2832,464,1254,64,545,1745,1746,1769,1031,153,1196,1668,1687,78,1508,1510],"class_list":["post-4994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amazing","tag-awesome","tag-beginning","tag-certainty","tag-challenges","tag-change","tag-chapter","tag-children","tag-cope","tag-couple","tag-date","tag-dating","tag-empty-nest","tag-empty-nester","tag-end","tag-excitement","tag-fantastic","tag-focus","tag-future","tag-gift","tag-goal","tag-goals","tag-happy","tag-hard-times","tag-joy","tag-lake-powell","tag-life","tag-move-forward","tag-optimism","tag-optimistic","tag-parent","tag-past","tag-positive","tag-relationship","tag-sad","tag-thinking","tag-time","tag-uncertainty","tag-wonderful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4995,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions\/4995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}