Life has been very hectic the last two or three years. So much has gone on. I graduated from high school and started college, got married, and had a baby. I got divorced, went back to college and became a teacher. I moved a few thousand miles from home, became a grandmother, remarried, and lost my mom way too early. A week or so ago Nancy got remarried, and got pregnant for the 3rd time. Thomas is due in a few minutes. Or a few months. Around Father's Day. Okay, okay, so it wasn't two or three years, or a week or so ago. Everything I mentioned happened in the last 34 years. Looking back though, it seems to have all happened so fast.
I have heard that the length of a minute depends on which side of the bathroom door you are standing. An example I have used is that a minute eating an ice cream cone would seem a lot shorter than a minute being hit on the thumb with a hammer. Even just going about our daily business, some days time seems to drag and others it seems to fly by. The year drags by, but when Christmas and New Year's come we wonder where the year went. I still remember when I first noticed that time seemed to be going faster and faster each year. When I was in the ninth grade time seemingly began to speed up, and it has gotten faster each year since.
This reminds me of two quotes. The first was from Kermit the Frog, "Time's fun when you're having flies." I love it! I don't know who said the second one, and it took me a few minutes to get it the first time, but it is, "Time flies like an Arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I couldn't agree more! I blinked and Andrew is in his last week of elementary school. Just last week he was a little teeny boy learning how to pin his name tag on in preschool! And Hannah-holy guacamole-that girl's social calendar is fuller than mine! :) I think once you hit the age where you enjoy your age-that's when it seems to start going faster. Except even last night, Andrew was tearing up realizing he's going to be taking a step away from childhood and into adulthood. (Shh..don't tell him I told!)
ReplyDeleteThis week and next I am working on a wedding cake for a young woman who just last year was in grade 10 and helping me on the church website. Two weeks ago she finished her second year of Med School and somewhere in between the two managed to work a couple of summers as my web design assistant. We met with her and her hubby to be last week to finalize things and I couldn't believe how she has grown into such a beautiful, talented woman.
ReplyDeleteOn the other side of the coin I am listening to my Dad tell stories of his youth and how vivid his memory is of them at 84 years old.
Yes time flies, but it is great when we can store all that it leaves in its wake!