I forgot about the roses
 I'm not really sure how it happened...  the mysterious disappearance of the last several years of my life.  Of course I believed everyone when they fed me all those classic lines:   "It goes by so fast!"   "The days are long, but the years are short..."   "One day, these will be the good old days!"    Yet, somehow I still let it all slip through my fingers.   Somewhere along the way, those days became sooo  dang long and those years went by so  fast, I guess I just forgot to stop and smell the roses.   The last time I wrote on here was 3 years ago and I honestly can't even tell you what happened between then and now.  I lost a lot of brain cells, drove a bunch of kids around in my van  A LOT , wondered what it would be like to get 8 hours of sleep every night... things like that.   But what happened with my amazingly awesome little boy named Mac, who has never had anything written about him?  Sadly, I don't remember.  If I'm being totally ...
