My fifth (or sixth) blog

 This is my new blog. It's either my fifth or sixth blog. I miss writing. My previous blogs were daily musings, little stories about my kids (which I'm so thankful for and love reading back on). But I'm in a different phase of life now. Both kids are close to or fully in adulthood, but I don't have an empty nest...yet.

My urge to write has come back. I wrote a post yesterday that I intend to re-read in 11 years...

OB (Older Brother) is away at college. Thankfully, he lives about an hour away, so going to visit him is easy and kind of frequent. I'm not sure how much I want to share about my kids on this blog. I'm thinking of making this blog public, partly because I don't think blogs are what they were back in the early 2000s...ever since FB, I stopped blogging and reading blogs. But I wanted to find a place to post my thoughts and my writings. Not even sure if anyone will read this blog. 

Yesterday I had lunch with a friend that I have known for 25+ years. We are the same age and she got married one year after Hubs and I did. She and her husband were good friends of ours. We attended the same church, and hung out with them socially sort of regularly. They ended up having four kids, two of their kids were born the same years as OB and YB (younger brother). As our families grew, we saw less of them, but stayed in touch. When FB became popular, we become FB friends. I think we visited each other's homes about five times in the last ten years. Then a few years ago, she and I started meeting for coffee or lunch and I started to year about her marriage problems. No details will be listed here, but fast forward to last year and she is now divorced. Her husband literally became a different person. They were the couple that were so in love, their wedding was magical, I remember being jealous of their wedding. I truly don't understand how he changed so much and became someone that I could barely recognize (in personality). How does that happen? How does a loving, smart, caring person become none of that? Thankfully, my friend has found someone that loves her and that she loves back. Their relationship is still new, but I am hopeful that this new chapter will bring happiness to her

Hubs and I will celebrate our 27th wedding anniversary this year. It's been a very fast 27 years. I decided to call this blog The Next 50 years because I am turning 50 this year and it's kind of a halfway mark...what do I want to do with next 50 years. Will my kids/grandkids read this blog someday?