Time Warp

The mind has a funny way of playing tricks on you.

Example - You have something important that you cannot misplace so you put it "somewhere safe" and this item is important so you will absolutely remember where it is, right?

Wrong.  You do forget (at least I do).

The same is true for memories.

I spent the weekend with the boys and while we didn't do anything particularly memorable, I sat next to them last night thinking that there is no way I will forget these moments together ...

... and then Douglas texted me and asked me for the name of this blog, which I haven't touched since 2011.  I texted him the information and then spent an hour or more taking a trip down memory lane - reading funny stories, watching videos and looking at pictures.

Except it is hard to actually remember some of it.

Don't get me wrong, there are definitely specific moments that jump out, but others stories that I know that I typed myself are just fuzzy.

For that reason,  I am so grateful that I blogged from 2007 - 2011 when the boys were really little because these memories seem to be the fuzziest and the stories that I shared on the blog, in my own words, helped to bring some of it back.

Fast forward nearly 6 years from my last blog entry and my little boys are now a big kid (dare I see a  pre-teen) and a teenager.  Whoa.

My biggest regret from when the boys were little is that I did not take more video.  I am picture obsessed so they will never want for photos of themselves, but their sweet little voices and silliness is so precious on the videos that I do have.

So, rather than waiting until January 1 to resolve to make a change, I resolve to take more video to capture these moments AND to write down our stories - funny, sad and everything in between.

I don't want to forget the little moments because I know that the next 6 years will pass in a blink of an eye and my boys will be in yet another different phase of childhood and growing up. The days of biking while mom runs, cuddling on the couch and holding hands as we cross a street or at the mall (even though they don't need it) will be replaced by other experiences - ones that I know will be amazing and incredible in their own right, but I don't want to forget these moments.

The often cliche advice of taking a mental snapshot new parents are often given is so true, it is just too bad that you just don't know why that is so important until you are the one giving the advice.