Time Life

A few days back this quote popped up on my facebook, "growing old is natural, growing up is optional." This quote totally tied into what had been on my mind the last few weeks and I knew it was something that I wouldn't soon forget.

Everyone knows that they grow older each day, each month and each year. You realize that from the first birthday you celebrate to the last. For me personally, I've never really felt like I was getting older. I don't feel thirty one, heck I don't even think I look thirty one and most of the time I don't act thirty one. Time just slowly passed and I got older, despite it happening right before my eyes I never really noticed or paid much attention to it. I like to think that I'm young at heart, look at the world and still see the good in it, and can relate to my baby girls and still to someone three times my age. Age really isn't anything more than a number and life is only what you make of it whether you're 5, 25, or 50.

What really made me realize that I am getting older is watching my girls grow up right before my eyes. It is amazing. Addi is fast approaching four years old and it seems like just yesterday that we brought her home. Em will be 8 months tomorrow and it really was yesterday that we brought her home. They grow and learn so fast. It wasn't until a few weeks ago that I was looking at Addi and how big she is and how smart she is when I realized that at the same time she has gotten older, so have I. The physical or mental changes weren't as drastic but I was getting older also. I know it's common sense but for some reason it just never really occurred to me as much as it did that day. Time seems so precious when you look at it from that perspective. In less than a year, Addi will be in Pre-K, then kindergarten and it's going to go by so fast and we have absolutely no control over it.

I do agree 100% with the quote above. When the situation calls for the grown up me, I'll be that person, but the rest of the time I'll be where a kid can be a kid.