I can't get over how crazy life gets! It's amazing how one day you are young, and the next you realize you've gotten older, and that there are kids out there looking at you and calling you "ma'am"!!!
Life slips by you so fast. I can't believe that it's been over a week since my last blog...yes I can, but I had hoped I would've gotten better at posting by now.
At the end of the week I am exhausted. My house still needs to be cleaned, the laundry hasn't been done, the chances that I actually had a full-out shower BY MYSELF likely hasn't happened in a few DAYS, and that's all have to show for my exhaustion...rough looking face, frizzy hair, and smelly feet! Oh, did I mention, I haven't cooked an actual meal in a REALLY LONG TIME!
I don't know where my life has gone! I have no clue what happened to the month of May and here I am looking at the last half of June! I went out to our church's ladies night out last night. We were saying goodbye to our Pastor as this was going to be her last night out with the women of Southlands.
At the end of the evening, Phyllis got up to do a devotional. I've had a pretty crazy day, my brain has left me and I don't think I am ever going to get it back, Abi's been sick, and needless to say, I wasn't exactly concentrating on all of her words. However, one thing did stick out.
She asked if we were the same as we were 10 years ago, 5 years ago, or even one year ago. It was then that I started to think...I am certainly not the same person as I was one year ago, and not the same as I was two years ago either...life has changed me.
5 years ago, I was able to get a shower in before heading out for work in the morning. Last year, I was in the midst of a personality change. This year, I am trying to figure out who I am again. 10 years ago, I was calling people "ma'am" thinking I was being polite...now I realize that those women I called "ma'am" likely felt like slapping me. I know I certainly feel like hitting the kids over the head when they call me that...and I'm only 28!!!
Thing is, 10 years from now, I won't be the same as I am today. I like to think that life will seem easier, but I doubt it. I'd like to think that I'll finally be able to manage my day in such a way that I won't be brain-numb anymore...but I doubt it.
I do know that I will be older, I will be going through the TEENAGE YEARS with abi, and that I will be sitting on the couch at midnight wondering where on earth the time has gone!!!
Life is never guaranteed, and what happens during your time isn't guaranteed to be satisfactory, but one thing is guaranteed...besides taxes...time will FLY by!!!
My daughter is turning 4 on Sunday. I can remember when she was born, I had gotten a gift from a family friend (our new pastor actually), a pair of pink pj's. I can remember looking at those pj's and thinking she'd never fit into them, that she'd be talking and walking before she would be able to wear them...and that that day was SOOO far away! Today, abi dressed her doll in them...and in thirty years from now when she is dressing her own child in them, I will remember today as if it were only yesterday.
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Don't fret, Dani. Darrin will still treat you like you are 12 when we are there. He too is having a hard time realizing how fast time really slips away. I mean, his 12 year old baby sister has a 4 year old!!!!
P.s. Gift is in the mail but obviously will be late.
Some friends and I were just talking about this the other day. Sometimes I feel like things are a lifetime away and then I remember how quickly time passes. It's a little crazy. But I guess it's a good way to remind us not to take any of it for granted.
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