All Considered . com

Well, in short, this site is about kids, life and dream. To be more specific, it’s about things I have learned about life, seeing my two kids growing up.

I have a 4-year-old boy and a 4-month-old little girl (as of 02/2007). I love to talk about them. Many friends have asked me “why not write a book about these interesting little people? They are so funny!”

Hi guys/gals! Here I am - instead of writing a book for a few thousand people, I’m blogging for the whole universe!

A little bit about myself. My name is Sharon and I live in California, USA. Like many other women, I finished college, married, found a job, went back to school for better opportunity, landed a more rewarding job, jumped from company to company to get higher pay, debated whether or not to have child, had the first child, juggled between work, family and personal goals, strived and starved to maintain the perfect weight…

All went reasonably well - busy but uneventfully well - until my then 2-year-old boy got sick. With my face pressing against his feverish cheek, I suddenly found the missing spot in my life.

There had always been a missing spot in my life. It seemed somehow I never had a childhood. My husband often joked that I lacked long-term memory. He might be right. It always freaked me out listening to him talking about the things happened when he was three or four, and how he didn’t like the way his sister holding him when he was about one year old!

I had no recollection of my early childhood - no matter how hard I tried. It seemed I came to the world as a preteen, like a computer with preloaded programs. Plugged in, switched on, and with one cheerful “beep”, I was helping Grandma with the housework…

But I knew I had a childhood. Now I found it.

For the first time, I saw my life in its completeness. I saw how my wonderful Grandma died after taking care of the entire family for so many years; I saw how Mom struggled to keep the world around me going; I remembered every battle I fought as a daughter, a wife, a Mom; now through the innocent eyes of my child, I saw my early childhood, up close and personal.

So, that was how my life started; that is how it has been; and that is how it will continue.

All considered, that is life. Short, innocent, long, sweet, bitter, sophisticated, loving, harsh… I learned the biggest lesson about life from my baby.

I decided to change. I quit my job and became a full-time mom; I had a second child, a wonderful little girl who returns every touch and eye contact with a big wide smile; I started my own consulting business that I had been dreaming about for years…

Life continues; so are the battles; and so is my learning from the little people…

So is this blog.