The other day I got the call at work that my replacement laptop has arrived. It seems that the lease on my existing one has expired. "But," I sputtered, "I got this one right after I came back from maternity leave!" With LP! THREE YEARS AGO!
Then, as I was driving in to work this morning listening to NPR, the commentator said something to the effect of, "In the three decades sine 1979..." and I did a double take. Where has the time gone? How is it possible that it has been 15 years since I graduated high school? A decade since the Y2K craziness?
It seems that in my focus on daily milestones - lunch time, quitting, dinner time, bath time, bed time - years have passed by without my noticing.
This year my oldest niece will be bat mitzvahed - I remember the Hoos getting the call from his brother with the news that his wife was pregnant! On Monday, my brother's oldest daughter started kindergarten! How is it possible that more than five years have passed since I awkwardly held her as a newborn?
Besides taking photos and trying to enjoy life as it comes, how is it possible to capture time? Ideas on how to slow down before LP is in kindergarten - or being bat mitzvahed?!
4 comments:
AH! TIME MARCHES ON, MORE QUICKLY THAN WE WOULD LIKE...bUT HEY THAT'S WHY WE TRY TO HAVE LOTS OF GOOD TIMES. lOVE,GG
My 5 year old niece is headed to kindergarten in a couple weeks too and I have almost the exact same post saved to publish. I feel like she was born yesterday.
What is it about this age, our age, that makes us think "Time is FLY-ING!"?
I'm getting ready to put LMA in preschool! Hubby asks me if I'm okay with, which I am right now, but if he keeps asking I probably won't be. And if I do stay okay with it, I'll probably loose it the first day I drop him off.
My mum worked when I was little & she took one day a month (or at least every other, but my memory - flawed? - thinks every month) & took us out of school individually & spent the day with us. She actually took us to work with her & we'd do (packed) lunch together & spend that day as just 'mum & me'. Pretty cool memory, honestly. Some trips (into the city for the day with her) we'd even be able to go to the toy store & pick out something small - like 5pounds worth - so today's equivalent of $20?. Anyway, great way to balance work/life & remember what's most important - shared memories :)
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