I'm Gonna What?

Last fall Tim and I stumbled across, "The Celebrity Apprentice" and ended up watching it almost all season off and on. We had our favorite actors, (mine had a normal tongue!) and I totally fell for Trace Adkins. I've been an on again, off again country music listener, more so since we've moved away; my mom is a huge fan and listening makes me feel closer to her sometimes and Lindsey likes it too now. Anyway, since we got to know Mr. Adkins I have started listening more again and on one of the last shows Trace sang his new song, "You're Gonna Miss This" and the first time I heard it I was all nostalgic and everything but since then I have had many days where I think, "Really? Are you Sure??" Everybody says to be careful or you'll blink and miss it all and sometimes I just want to sit in a dark corner and blink, blink blink!! Please let me miss just a little! And then the moments come, when you can almost see the light switch come on, when they do actually act like they know you in public, when they are actually all getting along, if even for a moment... Last weekend I had a great moment like that, I looked outside and saw my oldest 2 shooting baskets together - it was really awesome, until Kurt accidentally hit Emma in the head with the ball so Lindsey slapped him in the head and then he of course had to hit her back... and poof! it was gone. I'm Gonna Miss This? Whatever you say... I have a t-shirt that my friend gave me with funny sayings on the back of it that you never thought you would hear or say like, 'Dinosaurs don't belong in the toilet", "Please don't leave worms in your packet" or "Who took a bite out of my lipstick!" and my all time favorite, "You take care of you and we'll take care of them". Lately its been at my house things like, "Who put Tupperware down the laundry shoot?", "Why is there Grilled Cheese in your bed?" or the most expensive question of the week, "How much laundry did you put in the washing machine anyway?"

I know life is so busy for everybody and we are no exception to that. Sometimes too busy. And its the times when I see them playing outside together (even for a minute) or catch them talking to each other with a tone that does not sound like they hate each other, or receive a fistful of dandelions that I realize I will miss this time. And I'm glad that a simple song can make me stop and realize that for a minute. So, I want to "miss it" later when its all gone instead of wishing it away to fast by blinking too much!