Originally Posted by
BobbyJ 
When the kids tell me now, "Mom you have really changed".
I tell them Yes and Im glad you notice, its good to be back to who I really am.
Awww...that is awesome! I got a similar version of this recently...it meant so much to me to hear my girls say they like me so much better now. I too didn't realize the great lengths I was going to "protect" them from what they so obviously knew already. Until I knew. Then I had to do something about it. That was the hard part.