Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Have you ever noticed all the phrases and cliches, movies, and songs there are about the concept of time? An issue with time has to be the top excuse we give, "I ran out of time", "I didn't get up in time", "It took a long time to get here", "I don't have time", "I just need more time!", and the list could go on.Time flies when you are having fun, but the truth is time flies by even when you are not having fun. There might be only a few times when time seem to slow down, at the end of expecting your baby through birth or those last few weeks of adoption and those last few weeks before Summer break ends and you have no concept of time and have exhausted all efforts to keep your kids entertained :). Time seems to go the quickest when you are looking forward to something exciting and when you decide to lose a certain amount of weight for a certain event. I mean really, you decide to lose some weight for an event several months away and the next thing you know that event is here and you haven't lost an ounce!
I guess I have really been focused on this issue with time because I am pretty sure 2015 was the quickest year I have ever experienced. I am not sure if it had to do with the whirlwind of buying the house and moving, Jeremy's uncertainty of employment, so many guests coming to visit us, anxiously waiting how September 2015 would play out (you know, the whole end of the world, blah, blah, blah. Oh wait, maybe that was just me), anticipated trip to OK for Thanksgiving, and us hosting Christmas for the first time. 2015 was also the year that I saw the biggest growth in my children. All three of them are not my babies anymore (hold on, let me get a tissue). Samuel has grown physically and emotionally and I just can't accept it! Emma is in her last year of single digits and her and Chloe both have grown and changed so much the last 12 months. At Thanksgiving, seeing Samuel next to his cousins and seeing how much taller and older he looked just about took my breath away. We went to TN last week and we went to visit our dear friends Johnny and Cathy. We walked in and Samuel went to hug Mrs. Cathy and he was taller than her! Now, she is short like me, but wasn't it just yesterday Samuel was no higher than her coffee table in his M&M costume getting Halloween candy?! Oh it has been hard on my heart to realize how quickly time has gone by.
It then makes me think about what am I doing with the time I have now. How many wasted moments I have had with my kids and how can I do better about cherishing each moment? Tuesday morning Emma has a book club before school so it requires us waking up and leaving an hour earlier than normal. Tuesday morning are always a little rough, but a Tuesday after break is the worst. We were running behind and I went in to wake Emma up and she woke up with a goofy grin and wanted to tell me all about her dream of two cats named Meatball and Kyle that got lost in space. The dream went on for an eternity is seemed and I caught myself becoming impatient and going over the list in my head of all the things that needed to be done in the next 20 minutes, one of them waking up Samuel! I was about to tell her she needed to stop talking and get ready, but it hit me, I would never get this moment back. This moment of my daughter with her bed head and sleepy eyes, and goofy grin telling me about her dream. I realized that I need to make sure I do not miss these moments.
Life gets busy. I am sure 2016 will also go by quickly. They say to seize the day, but maybe we need to start seizing the moments.
Some of my favorite memories from 2015.
I guess I have really been focused on this issue with time because I am pretty sure 2015 was the quickest year I have ever experienced. I am not sure if it had to do with the whirlwind of buying the house and moving, Jeremy's uncertainty of employment, so many guests coming to visit us, anxiously waiting how September 2015 would play out (you know, the whole end of the world, blah, blah, blah. Oh wait, maybe that was just me), anticipated trip to OK for Thanksgiving, and us hosting Christmas for the first time. 2015 was also the year that I saw the biggest growth in my children. All three of them are not my babies anymore (hold on, let me get a tissue). Samuel has grown physically and emotionally and I just can't accept it! Emma is in her last year of single digits and her and Chloe both have grown and changed so much the last 12 months. At Thanksgiving, seeing Samuel next to his cousins and seeing how much taller and older he looked just about took my breath away. We went to TN last week and we went to visit our dear friends Johnny and Cathy. We walked in and Samuel went to hug Mrs. Cathy and he was taller than her! Now, she is short like me, but wasn't it just yesterday Samuel was no higher than her coffee table in his M&M costume getting Halloween candy?! Oh it has been hard on my heart to realize how quickly time has gone by.
It then makes me think about what am I doing with the time I have now. How many wasted moments I have had with my kids and how can I do better about cherishing each moment? Tuesday morning Emma has a book club before school so it requires us waking up and leaving an hour earlier than normal. Tuesday morning are always a little rough, but a Tuesday after break is the worst. We were running behind and I went in to wake Emma up and she woke up with a goofy grin and wanted to tell me all about her dream of two cats named Meatball and Kyle that got lost in space. The dream went on for an eternity is seemed and I caught myself becoming impatient and going over the list in my head of all the things that needed to be done in the next 20 minutes, one of them waking up Samuel! I was about to tell her she needed to stop talking and get ready, but it hit me, I would never get this moment back. This moment of my daughter with her bed head and sleepy eyes, and goofy grin telling me about her dream. I realized that I need to make sure I do not miss these moments.
Life gets busy. I am sure 2016 will also go by quickly. They say to seize the day, but maybe we need to start seizing the moments.
Some of my favorite memories from 2015.
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