Christmas Eve....

I don't know what it is, but this year Christmas Eve just doesn't feel like it is really Christmas. Maybe it is because my kids are older and some of the thrill of secrecy is gone. Who knows. We use to go drive around and look at Christmas lights but they are everywhere now so you really don't have to go looking for them. The kids are old enough that they don't need any entertaining from us.

I do remember that the fun part is not the reason we celebrate this time of year, but this year that is the part of the season that I am missing!

I don't want my kids to be little again by any means, but I would love to be feeling some of that old magic that use to make it so hard to fall asleep.

Merry Christmas everyone, my your Christmas be filled magic. And may we always remember the joy of the special baby born on Christmas night!

Time is flying.....

So......It is officially the last month of this year! Weird to think of it that way isn't it? Most people are thinking of it as the month of Christmas (with good reason). I too was thinking about how close Christmas was getting, until Megan updated her Face Book status this morning.

She was probably thinking it would be funny or clever, but it almost threw me into a panic.

Status Update Dec 2ND 2009 9:06 AM "85 days 4 hours 58 mins until I'm a legal adult. Wow"

What parent is ever thinking they are going to have there kids really be old enough to be a real adult? Certainly NOT me! I was totally unprepared for this statement this morning. I have been thinking ever since about the post I made for my Dad (the Cinderella video) and how now even though I am not the Dad, it totally applies to me. Here and now!

Time really is flying! I would like to apply the breaks and just slow down for just a little. Take more time to enjoy all the giggles and silly moments I failed to write down. All the times we have argued but ended in a hug or something of the like. The times that didn't.

I also keep thinking, that for someone that was never going to have kids, I am sure having a hard time with, thinking of them being ready to go out on their own.

I hope that as my kids do grow and venture out on their own, that I have taught them well and given them the desire to succeed and be amazing adults, but that I have also given them the desire to visit with me often even after they take on their new adult life. If this is the case, then I will have been successful.

Megan I love you and you truly inspire me to be a better Mother and woman! I wanna grow up and be a lot like you! ;)