Society for the Preservation of My Sanity

Seriously.

Where DOES it go?! Y'know, when I was a kid, I remember people stopping my mom in town or something and declaring My, but they've grown so much! Where does the time go? (they being me and my sis) Back then, I just thought it was all stupid and wanted to get the whole ordeal overwith asap!

But now? I AM THEM! Wandering around, looking at kids who it seems just yesterday were in diapers and slobber bibs...and now they're grown!! WHERE DID THE TIME GO!?!?

What's more preposterous is that I'm not the career woman who was busy working and didn't notice. I'm the SAHM who was at the grocery every week, who was making play dates and meeting at the library for reading circle. HOW DID I MISS IT?!?!

Well, to be totally fair to myself and honest with you, I wasn't that mom (as referenced above) so much with my second child as I was with my first. With Casey, I was sick. A LOT. And after I was done being sick, there was a long hard recovery, so I was definitely NOT the go-here-and-there mom during that time. But by the time Casey was about 5, we'd met Karen and her three boys and were back to doing things like that again. Trail hiking, campground programs, swimming at the lake, paintball games (not us, but taking the boys to!) yadda, yadda....

WHERE DID THE TIME GO?!?!

Karen was here for a bit yesterday evening and we got to talking about all the fun stuff we used to do with the kids "back in the day".... Once we took them all to the lake to swim. We were going to a place where you had to walk way down to get to the shore, past a picnic area a little ways back in the woods.

There was a solitary car in the lot when we got there in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week. Neither one of us thought much of it. We figured some people had been fishing and for whatever reason, they left one car behind. *shrugs*

We passed a 20-something fella at the picnic tables as we headed deeper into the woods and on down the steep hillside. Why? Well, to swim in this waterhole, of course!

At the time, we kinda got uneasy, but not enough to turn back. The boys had a blast that day. They found a huge log, they did. And they rode it and threw each other off of it and let one wrap himself around the middle of it while the others spun him around.... you've never seen five kids have so much fun with a piece of naturally-occurring dead wood. :)

Then there were all the trips to the nursing home doing all those hilarious and fun skits. Of course, Karen and I had to help with the refining of the things or else they'd be 8 hours long in some cases or they'd be nothing but a series of cardboard sword fights, which tended to disturb the residents. We made costumes, posterboard campfires, pirate costumes, pilgrim and Indian costumes, we made beaded candy canes and attached Bible verses, construction paper flowers with pompom faces, paper windmills, etc, etc, etc... to give to the residents.

And there are a million other times when they all just goofed off a either our house or theirs. I guess that's why Karen's split affected not just her boys, but mine as well, y'know? Their best friends, for the most part, have become people they don't know. People they can't relate to.

*sigh* Great. Now I'm not only melancholy. I'm sad.

Um...well, anyhow, whatever the point of this post was supposed to be....I just feel a little overwhelmed with how fast life it flying past me right now.

Corey has the opportunity to take a class or course at the @mbul@nce service as prep to take the state boards. The cost for the course is $450, but as a cadet, he can take it free. It seems like an awfully good opportunity and I feel like he should jump at it even though he's not really leaning towards a career in that field anymore.

The course will span 6 months from July thru February, two nights a week, four hours a night. To me it seems like something he should persue, but I think he's torn on whether or not to do it.

Actually he's torn about a lot of things these days. What career does he wanna persue? And perhaps, How is he going to get all his credits finished by the end of the year while still saving up the money needed to do what he really wants to his car? And what after that? If he goes to college approximately 50 miles away, how will he work, where will he live? WAIL!!!

See? He's really stressing out about this stuff. Um....heh. *weak grin*

Okay! Gah! I have GOT to go get something done around here today. Been to the chiro this morning and he had to adjust me again. It always makes me feel so wiped out, but enough laying around here! Got TONS to do!!

The Sty awaits! Guh.

Blessings~~