Time Flies!

I am not sure how so much time can pass so quickly. I guess that is life with an 18-month-old little boy. Yes, I said 18 months...

Here it is the first week of December. Christmas is only a few weeks away. I wish I could say that I have it all together - that the Christmas cards are done and sent, that the presents have all been purchased, that the decorations are up and that we are at home each night quietly enjoying the holiday season. But it is not to be.

Fall comes upon us so quickly. It seems like the pool just closed and we just returned from our week in Maine. Halloween crept in and we spent the weeks leading up to it getting excited for our trip to Florida and Riley's first "real" Halloween. The actual holiday weekend flew by between enjoying time with Casey's parents and spending quality time at the pool. We came back only to find ourselves counting the seconds until we left for Thanksgiving in Harbour Island, Bahamas. Thrown in there, we had a health scare with Winston that ended with a trip to the emergency room and much worrying and tears as we thought we were taking him there to put him to sleep, only to find that there was nothing seemingly wrong with him (except for a sensitive stomach and arthritis from his knee surgeries). Winston recovered in time for Wrigley to have a health scare of her own. Not as dramatic, but still, she didn't eat for days and didn't even want to play ball much, both bad signs for her. They both recovered in time for our Thanksgiving travels and spent time "recovering" at the home of their favorite friends. Harbour Island was as amazing as we'd imagined it to be, and the week was over before it even began. We were sad to return home, only to realize that it meant we would be in Chicago celebrating Christmas in the City and then with my family soon enough to make our return from our time with Casey's family tolerable. And then we return from Chicago only to turn around and head back to Florida a few days later to spend New Year's with Casey's parents.

Phew!!! No wonder why time flies. But all for good reason, and all with the many wonderful and amazing opportunities that we have been given. Thankful? Absolutely. Exhausted? Certainly. Would I change a thing (other than getting to spend more time with those people (and animals) that I care about so deeply)? Definitely not.

But still, I find myself wishing that I could turn back time.