Time

I have always been fascinated with time...how quickly it goes by at the same time it creeps. From different angles and perspectives, time takes on different forms. I find myself thinking a lot lately about "this time last year." This time last year Nate was a couple of days away from delivery. His delivery was a scheduled C-section so we knew the date and hour of his arrival (praying he didn't make an entrance unexpectedly sooner). I was cleaning, cooking, freezing meals and NESTING last June 19th and it doesn't seem like very long ago. But in other ways it seems like an eternity since last June. I look at pictures and think of how I was in "survival mode" with a 20 month old and a newborn, and a husband who was in school and working late nights. In other ways, Nate should still be a newborn and Mae shouldn't be such a big girl. I commented on how quickly a year can go by when you're preoccupied with a newborn. Jon responded that I better not get any ideas on how to make his last year of Pharmacy school go by that quick. Nate's first year went by MUCH quicker than Mae's first year...I'm still amazed at how smart he is already, thinking things like "You shouldn't be able to do that already!" Then I remember that he's a year old! I'm so thankful that we made it through this first year with TWO children and that we have a happy, healthy baby boy.
I'm going to try to post the slide show I made for his birthday. I might try to go back in the files and post Mae's too. It really helps give a visual of where the year has gone...