I guess it's official.
This morning, we witnessed the kiddos hopping on school buses and heading to school.
That marks the end of summer, I suppose, and the end of summer seems to come a little earlier every year (even though the actual warmness of the weather keeps creeping later and later; are we going to have winter this year, anyone?). Call me silly, but I like to think of the end of summer as that day on the calendar that falls in the middle of September, after my birthday (my birthday, Sept. 16, is in summer, but it has never, ever felt that way even though I know it's always hot on my birthday).
This marks my 39th summer if you count that first one I was born during in 1974, and I'm sure many of them seemed really long or really short depending on how old I was. For me, it seemed like the summers of my childhood lasted FOREVER. Now it seems like they zip by. In a flash.
Especially this one.
It's been a busy one, filled with lots of travels, family visits and fun. I don't think I had a boring day in the bunch (I do recall, vaguely, having a boring day one day last winter, but I can't remember why it was boring; I bet it wasn't really that boring). Willow just seems to suck the boring right out of life.
I've heard the concept of time relative to your life put in many ways, the most popular saying being "Time flies when you're having fun." But I've also heard time speeds up as you get older, and I doubt that's because you're having any more fun than when you were a kid. I know both, however paradoxical, are true, though. I guess. I don't know. Like I said before, the summers of my youth lasted FOREVER, and I recall long summer days that seemed to last forever. Is this the unmovable object meeting the irresistible force? (I know for a fact that Willow is both unmovable and irresistble)
Whatever the sayings you want to apply to it, this summer has been the fastest yet (and I like to think my maturity has helped me realize to try to slow down and enjoy it). I've had so much fun AND I'm older than I've ever been. Thus zip, zip, zippity-do-dah, good-bye summer.
This fall is going to be so much fun!
This morning, we witnessed the kiddos hopping on school buses and heading to school.
That marks the end of summer, I suppose, and the end of summer seems to come a little earlier every year (even though the actual warmness of the weather keeps creeping later and later; are we going to have winter this year, anyone?). Call me silly, but I like to think of the end of summer as that day on the calendar that falls in the middle of September, after my birthday (my birthday, Sept. 16, is in summer, but it has never, ever felt that way even though I know it's always hot on my birthday).
This marks my 39th summer if you count that first one I was born during in 1974, and I'm sure many of them seemed really long or really short depending on how old I was. For me, it seemed like the summers of my childhood lasted FOREVER. Now it seems like they zip by. In a flash.
Especially this one.
It's been a busy one, filled with lots of travels, family visits and fun. I don't think I had a boring day in the bunch (I do recall, vaguely, having a boring day one day last winter, but I can't remember why it was boring; I bet it wasn't really that boring). Willow just seems to suck the boring right out of life.
I've heard the concept of time relative to your life put in many ways, the most popular saying being "Time flies when you're having fun." But I've also heard time speeds up as you get older, and I doubt that's because you're having any more fun than when you were a kid. I know both, however paradoxical, are true, though. I guess. I don't know. Like I said before, the summers of my youth lasted FOREVER, and I recall long summer days that seemed to last forever. Is this the unmovable object meeting the irresistible force? (I know for a fact that Willow is both unmovable and irresistble)
Whatever the sayings you want to apply to it, this summer has been the fastest yet (and I like to think my maturity has helped me realize to try to slow down and enjoy it). I've had so much fun AND I'm older than I've ever been. Thus zip, zip, zippity-do-dah, good-bye summer.
This fall is going to be so much fun!
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