The older I get, the more time seems to speed up! My elders have told me such all my life from the "You better just enjoy being a kid because before you know it, you'll be all grown up" to the favorite advice of those with grown kids to new mothers, "My only regret is that I didn't just enjoy it more and worry less when my kids were little because they really do grow up so fast," so I had a sense it would happen, but it's so much more surreal once it actually does. My youngest turned 7 this week, and my oldest will turn 9 on November 14th, and it's almost the end of October 2010, and I don't know where the time has gone. I guess it's simply a fact of life. We grow up, gain perspective and wisdom, and figure out how precious life is just as it begins to pass us by more quickly. Well, for me, this means I need to ensure I make the most of every moment I have!
This will begin tomorrow, as I consider the day and realize, I will have little time to take care of work because I will be busy dressing up as Snow White, helping the little darlings at the preschool get safely on the bus and on their way to a trick-or-treating field trip, having lunch with my boys while they change into their costumes for the afternoon, and finally helping the third graders make tootsie pop spiders out of lollipops, pipe cleaners, puff balls, and googly eyes, and having cupcakes and treats with both my kids at their Halloween parties at school, and then heading up to Roi, still in my Snow White costume, mind you, to see my sweet darling for our own weekend Halloween celebrations. And when I think about this, even though not much real work will get done tomorrow, it's the most important work I could do. I know I'll be glad I took the time to spend it with those I love instead of sitting in an office doing paperwork that really won't matter all that much to me a few years from now when the kids are grown and life has slowed back down. Enjoy the day, my friends, for time will pass you by in the blink of an eye. :)
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