Where does the time go?

I woke up this morning and started about my daily routine preparing for the day. This normally involves numerous mundane tasks like showering, dressing and most importantly coffee. This morning I was unusually efficient and somehow managed to complete these things giving me a few precious moments to just sit in the dark by myself and think.

Where does all of the time go? Before we had kids, we had hours, even days to really do nothing. We worked our tails off, but we still had oodles of time to ourselves. Back then, Kelly always had tax season to deal with and I remember spending most of one winter’s weekends working on a plant stand that I gave to mom as a gift. That project was a heck of a lot of fun and every time I go up to Antigo I take a few seconds to look at it and admire my amateur attempt at woodworking.

I don’t want to give you the wrong impression here; I would not trade being a Dad for anything in the world. I cannot imagine life without those two beautiful faces in my world. Like that plant stand, I sit back like any honest proud parent and admire “our two projects” at times and it just blows me away. I guess I am pondering one of the things that I have been guilty of over time: looking forward or back in time without really appreciating the moment at hand. Tim McGraw sings a song called “Live Like You Were Dying” and I know for myself that is one thing that I need to a better job of doing. Time, like money is something I think most people tend to appreciate the most when they don’t have any left.

I wonder where the summer went and I wonder how much fun it will be in Green Bay this weekend. I have not posted anything in a couple days, but I realize that in writing this it helps me think about life today and appreciate what I am writing on this page right now, at this moment. I am enjoying this beautiful day even though it is cloudy, overcast and a little cold. I hope you are as well.