Time flies

Ok, now that we all know I'm really slack at blogging, I'll finally start to do this right (hopefully!).

Is summer really almost over? It seems like my daughter just got out of school. Actually, it seems like just yesterday she was a toddler! Now she starts middle school in a couple weeks. Where has the time gone! I sometimes feel like I've missed moments with her. Not intentionally, but let's be honest--do I really have to do the dishes right after supper? For Mother's Day, my husband and kids gave me a wonderful gift! It was a glass jar with dove dark chocolates (my absolute favorite) and little notes from all of them. I was allowed to open one note each day. It was so cool to read some of the things my kids wrote. I realized that they are happy with the simplest things from me. My daughter loves when I read to her! Here we are trying to take our kids to all these "places" and entertain them, when they are happiest when we just read to them or tell them a story from our childhood. It made me stop and think about those evenings when it's bedime and we're running way past bedtime and I'm super tired. I really just want to go to bed and my daughter asks me to read to her. It's something so simple and takes only about 10-15 minutes. Sometimes, I confess, I put her to bed without that story. I usually wonder as I'm trying to fall asleep if she is upset that I didn't read to her. But when I say sure, which book do you want, I realize that I'm showing her just how much I love her. And just maybe time will stop, at least for those 15 minutes.