Aerobics, and a bird walk

I just love going to my step aerobics class. I really suck at it, but its a lot of fun. When I was little my mom let me take dance classes. I was really into it from the time I was seven until age fifteen. I was pretty bad at that too, actually, but my mom was so great that she let me do it as long as I wanted, despite the cost. I didnt realize when I was little how many sacrifices my mom and my dad made for me and my siblings. Now that I am a mom, though, its all much clearer. My kids mean so much to me that I would do absolutely anything for them. Its hard to not let them walk all over me. I do get upset sometimes when I know that Jonathan is taking advantage of my love for him by doing things that he knows makes me mad. But then I realize that I did it too when I was little...subconsciously I guess. You don't really realize when you're little how much what you say and do affects your parents. If you're anything like me, I think that as parents we are constantly analyzing our child's behavior, trying to figure out what we're doing wrong or right, and worrying that we've ruined our children. I wonder how many times my parents worried that I was going to grow up all wrong. I hope that when they look at me now they come to the conclusion that they did really well as parents. When my children grow up, I just hope that my husband and I will come to that same conclusion.