Wow, almost a year since I've been on here. Hmmm, I guess it falls into the "I really meant to keep up with that" category. Let's catch up then. Still in Maine. Still not sure for how long. But then again who knows how long anyone is going to live anywhere. Your life can change on a dime.

I guess we all have dreams when we're growing up about how our lives are going to be. Grow up, get married, have kids (or not) and live happily ever after. One thing we didn't realize is that there is an awful lot of space to fill up in between all of that happening.

What part of growing up teaches you to deal with life's blows that you are thrown when you become an adult? Are you able to handle them any better as an adult if you're thrown those blows early on?

We all make plans about the rest of our lives every day. The problem with that is life never goes according to plan, which is one way it's interesting and another, so terrifying.

My husband has been going through something medically for the past 6 months. I never thought at 32 and 33 we would be worrying about things like that. We've, or rather, he has been to every doctor you could think of and no one can come up with a diagnosis. That in and of itself is so frustrating. There are days when I could just scream all day. Then there are those days that remind me that no matter what we are still truly lucky.

Yet, it still feels as though we've been going down the highway of life and we came upon this very sharp curve on a road that we've never been on, and we were going too fast and we're still in the middle of the curve, not knowing if we're going to come out of it, and be left with our hearts pounding from the nervousness of it all, or crash right in the middle and have to figure out how to get the "car" going again.