Time...

I guess that I had more free time in the Summer....just like everyone else. It was the lazy, hazy days of Summer where the kids and I did anything and at times nothing and felt great about it all. There were no appointments, time lines, agendas, curfews.....there was nothing. AND it was GREAT!! Our deck was another part of our home...its where we ate, played, read, drank wine on a Sunday afternoon or coffee on the weekend mornings. My husband and I could close the sliding door and hear nothing of the fighting going on in the livingroom...it was just us, our coffee and the sounds birds, crickets, or the water planes. Its now the end of September and I have wondered what happened? We as a society are back on the clock...literally. We are setting our alarms, rushing around like the saying "a chicken with their head cut off" trying to get everything done in the early morning. There are a few breaks through the days when the kids are at school, and then it picks up again when we go to get our kids. We sometimes have to deal with situations that has happened at school and then we usually have a chat during the walk home. At home we settle in, do homework, baths, dinner and get ready for the next day, usually throwing in  a load of laundry between commercials of our favourite shows that have returned to us, like a long lost friend(come on...you now you are addicted to those shows...). And sometimes YES, you do have to fit your husband in...even though you are DEAD TIRED. Perhaps that is why September has seemed to have rushed by so quickly....
In a blink of an eye....I can vividly remember the birth of my three kids...like it was yesterday. I remember smells, the room, the feelings(like you could forget the birth and the pain of three kids totally in weight of 31 pounds..ugh) and now Josh is starting Grade One, and loves it. He wants to walk alone to school, so we hang back about a block. He is having his first spelling test today. Then there is Katie, my baby girl, Momma's girl. She is starting Junior Kindergarten and part of me is soo sad. A week before school actually started, she didnt want to go, "its not a good idea!" The first day I held her hand, while she waited in line. As we approached the door to her future, I slipped my fingers out of her hand...she was gone! AND now she loves school and wants to go everyday. Thankfully Alex is not yet two...sigh of relief...one more still at home to baby!
Time goes by quickly...and now October is approaching. The days are getting cooler and shorter but life is quickly moving through them all.