Gold

We have gotten back into our routines and it seems like we are as busy as ever. I feel like some days when I look at the calendar the days and months just fly by. Trying to figure out when to squeeze visits in, playdates, fun activities. I really wish I had a pause or slow motion button. I do try to stop myself and take certain things in, to imprint the memories on my brain of the boys playing together or working together or chattering in the back seat of the car. I want to always remember their little voices and little faces along with the daily little stuff that is sometimes frustrating and exhausting. As the calendar pages just seem to keep turning I dont want to miss or forget.

This has all been on my mind so much more as we just completed Maks' 3rd and final post placement report. That's it, we are done. It seems like just yesterday we were walking into the baby home and reacting in surprise how solid and chubby this little man was and now here were are, done our final report.

It is so easy to get wrapped up in the daily grind and balancing act between work, school, sports and family activities. How can we do this and not take anything for granted?

As I was looking at pictures I took during a little Fall hike we did with the kids I was thinking of the Robert Frost poem:

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay.

I always felt he was connecting the seasons to the cycle of life, childhood as amazing and precious as it is, quickly ends. It is a good reminder to me to stop and watch and not take any of it for granted. This is my kick in the butt now so to speak, stop and breathe, take it all in because life is just far to short.

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