I got on Typepad the other day and realized that I only posted three times in the entire month of July. Only three times. I cannot believe it. And then I realized that I haven't written any letters to my girls in ages. And then it hit me. Sam is going to be one NEXT MONTH.
It has been almost one whole year since I was on bedrest. Almost a year since I cried tears of relief at hearing her healthy little cry six weeks early. Almost a year since I cried for ten days straight while she was in the NICU.
Hayley will be three the month after Sam turns one. Hayley is starting preschool in two weeks. This time one year ago we had just moved Hayley from sleeping in a crib and all of a sudden now she is this little girl instead of a baby.
So much can happen in a year. A year goes by so quickly- and we always wonder how that happens. It's like every January we start fresh, we put away the Christmas decorations and it feels like it will be ages again before we get them out. Then next thing you know it's spring. Summer rolls in (for us usually about three days after Spring starts). It's hot and we can't wait for it to cool down just a little bit. But by the time it cools down just a little bit it becomes Halloween. Then November and December blaze by all too fast and we do it again.
It's tough to really live every single day in slow motion. I guess on our worst days it feels like the day will never end, but when you are lucky enough to have good days, well, you blink and before you know it a whole year of them are gone.
With all of the other things we have going on right now (trying to buy another house, figuring out if we are going to relocate temporarily in the mean time, working in a turbulent industry) I am going to have to make time to blog about the fun things that make it all worth it- my kids and my husband. So thanks for sticking with me and checking back often even as I haven't been a very good hostess.
I promise- I am going to barrage you with blog posts from now on.
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