Time Keeps On Slipping...

Winter has quickly slipped into Spring.  The trees are blooming, the air is warm and the skies are extra blue today.  It will soon slip right into Summer.  Sometimes I find myself "hurrying" the time by.  Right now I want the month to pass quickly so that we can close on the beach condo and I can begin visiting Okaloosa on a regular basis.  It seems like since childhood there was always something dangling out there in the future that I have been rushing toward.

I wonder if you ever experience that feeling?  Waiting for the next big break, waiting for the new job, waiting for the baby, waiting for the kids to graduate from college.  It seems like we spend so much time worrying and wishing about tomorrow that we forget to live TODAY.

Hubby and I went to Special Friends and Grandparents Day at Stratford Academy today and watched the children put on a really cute musical.  We really enjoyed it.  After coming home, I looked at some of Ashlyn's pictures from the last ten years...OMG. Where has the time gone?  Have I been wishing it away?  Not entirely.  I have made some great memories with the family over the years.  I will treasure them always.  While I find myself wishing for a date in the future at times, at other times I wish I could put time on hold for a bit and have the children stay young for a while longer.  They are growing up entirely too fast. 

I am going to work a little harder to take each day as it comes and to enjoy it for whatever it brings.  I am going to attempt to allow time to mosey along as it likes and not try to rush it.  Tomorrow will be here soon enough!

God Bless...Peace, Love and Joy!

Milestone Moments

That iPhone to the right is actually a creative Birthday Cake!  Neat huh?

We are celebrating a milestone moment later today with my grandson Eric's 16th birthday!  By the way, he got an iPhone!  And next month he will be driving.  It seems like just yesterday he was the tiny baby laying against my chest sleeping as I rocked and sang.  Wow!

I won't forget the day he was born, or the day we moved to Georgia to be closer to him.  I also won't forget today, when we will celebrate his sixteenth birthday.  In just two very short years he will be off to college and on to "grown up" life. 

I am not really sure why sixteen has always been such a milestone moment in a child's life.  It used to be for girls that we had "Sweet Sixteen" and never been kissed birthday parties.  I have my doubts that girls today reach sixteen without having been kissed!  I do remember my own sixteenth birthday party.  I also remember that I did get my first kiss just a few weeks before that happened.  I had a skating party at the local skating rink and my entire class from school was invited.  It was a really special night for me, as I had always been kind of a wallflower.  Not only did my whole class show up to celebrate with me, but my future husband gave me a beautiful heart shaped gold locket.  I was on cloud nine.  Definitely a milestone moment!

I understand a lot of girls still have those Sweet Sixteen birthday parties.  Good for them.  I hope their memories of that day are still as vivid as mine are some 49 years later!  I hope for each of them many, many milestone moments - Graduation Day from High School, the first day at College, Graduation from College, Marriage, the births of their children.  And then the cycle will begin again and the milestone moments will be watching their children experience these same things.

Treasure these "Milestone Moments."  They slip by entirely too quickly.  Retirement and moving to the Gulf is the next moment I am looking forward to.  There I will craft, paint and just enjoy the beauty of the Emerald Green Gulf as I watch the Milestone Moments in the lives of my children and grandchildren.  All treasures of the heart.