I always feel a bit sad when August winds down, and the busy preparations for the coming school year take the place of vacation days with no pressing schedule. I look back at the ambitious list of projects that I intended to do this summer, and laugh. The list remains undone, because more important things, like playing with my children and giving them a fun summer, took precedence. Oh, well.
One day my busy household will be quiet and the children will probably be grown and gone. I don't yearn for that day, though the days now can be tiring and long at times. But I am committed to enjoy this time now, as these days will pass, and can never be retrieved. Maybe then I will get the garage cleaned out. Who knows.
Friday, August 22, 2008
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I was just reading an article today about this mother who said she would trade almost anything to see her two young sons (now grown) playing in a pile of leaves once more. Needless to say, I choked on a sob when I read that. I can't believe how often I need to be reminded how fleeting time and childhood are. We always need such reminders. It got me to forget what I was doing for a moment and just sit with my son and play "cars" which he'd been begging me to do all day and to which I kept saying, "Not now. I'm busy."
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