Last week's project was putting highlights from my 2017 photos into an album. I'm not one to make a super creative book. If I put pressure on myself to make it fabulous, it would never actually happen... so I kept it really basic.
Today the physical book arrived on my doorstep.
As I took a minute to look it over, I was struck by how many big things have happened in our family this year!
A Jr college graduation. A high school graduation. Broken bones. Births in the extended family. My baby starting kindergarten. Four surgeries. A wedding, adding a new person to our family!
I guess I have been so caught up in living it, I haven't had much time to contemplate. But as I see it all compressed into a little book, it feels like stepping back and looking at my life from a distance.
It really does feel like yesterday that I was knee-deep in diapers and carseats and nap times and sippy cups. Now here I am helping people move and teaching people to drive and planning receptions and going to visit children in their own homes. It feels surreal. Not sad, necessarily, but surreal. I love all the growth and change I see in my children and in myself. I love the things we are learning along the way. And I especially love each of these people- my people.
The wind is blowing hard today, and somehow it feels like a metaphor for how fast my life is passing. Before I know it, my (now) little boys will all be grown up too. My life will be filled with wonderful new experiences, new people and new joys. I welcome it all!
But just for a minute, it feels important to acknowledge how fast it is flying by.