Am I the only one who looks at their calendar and says "November? What happened to October?" I can't believe how quickly time goes. When I looked back at my last post, I thought "Hmm. September was the last time I posted. I have a ton of things to catch up on." and yet, they seem so long ago already. I started looking through photos from all the events of the last eight weeks and I realize just how quickly life slips away. For those of us with busy children and thus busy lives, it seems like it goes even more quickly. My days are marked by obligations. I keep thinking to myself "if I can just get through
(fill in the blank), then I can get my life back to normal." After about two years of saying that I'm wondering if it will ever happen. Maybe this is my new normal. I don't mind being busy. In fact, after about a day of no obligations I start to get ansy. But what I don't like is not having the time to savor the things I love about our life.
In the last eight weeks, Maggie joined cross country and completed her season. I always felt rushed to get to her meets and rushed to leave to get her sister. Her dad was so busy with his high school soccer teams he never even got to see her run.
Molly and Gary both had birthdays and neither of them went as I had planned. I didn't have the time to do the things I wanted to do for them and even though they didn't notice, I knew what they missed. No one in my household got a birthday party...yet. I'm determined to have one.
I have a lot of good intentions...inviting friends over, calling my family in the midwest, this house project, that craft project...but they never get done.
I've made up my mind that I'm going to change that. Life is so precious and each day, each moment with our loved ones is a gift. I don't want to let even one slip away.
