What it means to be Sandra

Sandra: haunting lyrics by Enoch Anderson and music by Barry Manilow. Today, I feel like Sandra. If you're a mother, a wife, a multi-tasker and perhaps a bit of June Cleaver from "Leave it to Beaver", you know exactly what I'm talking about. There are those days that you are pulled in a hundred different directions and you wonder what happened to the "you" that was hiding inside. Or, was there ever really a "you" to begin with?

Don't get me wrong, I love my family. And I wouldn't trade that aspect of my life for anything. But it seems somehow in being that wife, mother and all-around multi-tasker (event planner, vacation guide, nurse, financier, housekeeper, cook, counselor, etc. etc.) it's hard to hold on to your dreams and your goals. It's hard to say STOP and take a hard look at what you need and want. And even when you do, it doesn't always turn out like you planned it would.

I've often wondered how Enoch Anderson (a guy) understood the mind of Sandra. Did he have a mother that inspired that song? He had to know someone that shared those feelings with him. Because they are common to so many women and ring true in the deepest sense of our emotions.

She says, I swear I love my husband, I love my kids
I wanted to be like my mother
But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did
Oh there might have been time to be me
For myself, for myself
There's so many things that she wishes
She don't even know what she's missin'
And that's how she knows....that she missed.

Truer words were never spoken,
Texas Fan