Life Is Like a Tire Swing!

I think Jimmy Buffet was right when he said, “life is like a tire swing.” The only part he left out was how much it hurts when you slam into the tree! I wonder if he had twin preteens/teens? I’d trade teens for toddlers any day. You begin to wonder what happened to those agreeable little people you brought into the world. Suddenly they’re all hormones and hollering.

And I’m at a loss. Do I “say nothing?”  Do I preach and punish? Do I email Richard Branson, the British dude and book a flight on the Virgin Galactic ASAP? There are 530 customers already signed up, should I be number 531? Should I sacrifice my kids’ college funds for that $200,000 space trip?

Now granted, it’s hard for Mommies In Orbit to keep her mouth shut all of the time, sometimes those kids just have it coming to them. What parent doesn’t blow off steam once in a while? Just because you become a parent doesn’t mean you have to lose your independent voice, right?

In the meantime, kids are gonna test me and push me and possibly even think, oh look she’s going over the edge. But life is like a tire swing, and Mom’s been on a few tire swings back in the day, so bring it on kids!

 Life was just a tire swing
‘Jambalaya’ was the only song I could sing
Blackberry pickin’, eatin’ fried chicken
And I never knew a thing about pain
Life was just a tire swing