Tonight, as we prepped for the first day of school, I paused and thought to myself, how the heck are we here already? I'm not referring to summer being over. Because believe me, that felt long enough coming from someone who works from home most days and had an 11-year-old and a 14-year-old hanging around the house most days this summer. I'm talking about this stage of life. How did we get here so fast? When my emotions get a little too big, I tend to need to word vomit them somewhere. Hence, this blog. Back when the kids were babies, that meant writing here pretty much every week. Then it became monthly. Then occasionally. And now, apparently, this blog mostly gets dusted off when life gives me a lot of feelings, and I need somewhere to put them. Which feels fitting, because tonight is definitely one of those nights. Tomorrow is the first day of school, and both of our kiddos are starting new adventures that I'd go ahead and deem milestone years. High school and middle sch...