Summer 2010

I am really behind in posting  but before I post our summer activities I want to record my feelings. This summer has been amazing.  It kind of reminds me of how when you look back at pictures and think, “ wow that was so fun” and wonder if you realized then how great it really was while you were experiencing it.  Except I realize it now that life is pretty great. 

We have spent our summer playing. My kids are older. They can go more places and do more.  Sometimes I wish I could freeze time.  I feel like my kids are at the best ages and stages.  Lindsey is not quite a teen so my kids all still prefer our family and spending time with us to being with friends.   It’s really great.

I appreciate that I have relaxed and lived more in the moments. The house isn’t as clean, we need to go to the grocery store all the time and we do wash when their are no more clean clothes. It’s the best way to survive.  Instead of staying home and forcing myself to stay caught up while going crazy we just do a little as we go and its been better.

 

I woke up last Sunday and it was August 1st and I felt incredibly sad. I know I am weird but I wonder if life will ever be like this again. Actually I know it won’t maybe it will be better maybe worse but it won’t be the same. My kids are growing up and its not lost on my that the moments were are sharing now, the memories we are making are finite and won’t last forever.

I guess there are certain stages so tough you feel you need to rush them to survive but for today this stage, this summer I am enjoying the moment.  Before long my youngest girls start Kindergarten and we will have four kids piled with homework and sports to run to. Life will be busier than ever.

 

Disclaimer- my house isn’t clean, my laundry isn’t done, and my kids do fight all the time like they always do.