Time...Keeps on Ticking...

Wow where has the time gone?  I can't believe how long it's been since I posted.  A lot has gone on since then.  My oldest daughter graduated high school.  If I even had an inkling of what that entailed I would have prepared for it a year in advance.  This picture was taken at 3:43 a.m. the night before her graduation party. 
Believe it or not I didn't even begin to get everything done or have it as "perfect" as I wanted it to be.  With my health problems, I should never be up at this time of the morning lol much less on my feet for almost 20 hours straight.  I have been doing it far too much lately though.  I am still paying for this 2 weeks later.

This has been the trend though for the past few months.  Who knew how much work it was Senior Year and how much money as well...phew that's another story.  I told my daughter as she left at 4 am for the beach a week earlier, that I think they have it all wrong.  The kids shouldn't get to go to the beach and party, the parents should.  That's what the SENIOR part means lol.  We spend all of the money, do all of the prep work and are emotionally and physically drained.  What I wouldn't have given to lay my butt on some soft white sand and do nothing for a week ha ha!

A big ha ha to those that think once graduation is over, it's all over right?  Nope, then there are the plethora of graduation parties, every weekend, multiple days.  I am fortunate enough to be friendly with my daughters friend and families and was invited to many of the parties myself.  This made for some really great times and memories, but late nights as well.  So the barrage on my lack of sleep and health continues.  Don't take that as complaining though, it's just reality.  I wouldn't trade these times or memories for anything in the world.  I just wish it wasn't so darn hard on me.

I was talking to a girl who graduated college at one of the parties and she was saying she couldn't believe how fast the time was flying by now.  I said it only gets worse too.  You spend so much of your life wishing the time away to get to this next step and the next part of your life, then once you get there, you look back and you wish and wish that you could slow it all down, that you could go back and take it all in.  That you could savor it a bit more and remember it in a little more detail.  Now I wish for more time, I wish for more hours.  I wish that I could go back in time and talk to myself when I was younger.  I surely wouldn't have listened to any adult who told me this truth that I know now.  Let's face it when you are young you poo poo away all of this grand advice that the older folks have for you.  My daughter is one "old soul" though and she takes it all in, God bless her.  That's one thing I love about her, of a long list of many things.  She actually believes these things I tell her and she listens.  Now cleaning her room and taking college entrance exams in a timely fashion are another story...

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