Time

You know how when you were young, old people would tell you that time flies, that it goes by too fast? I remember looking at them like they had two heads. They were crazy, time crawled by, especially around Christmas or a birthday. It took forever to get older.
Guess what!! I must be old now. There comes an age when everything reverses. You age incredibly fast, everyone around you is growing older, growing up. Birthdays fly by, Christmas comes and it feels like it has only been a couple weeks since Halloween.
Something about watching your own kids grow up makes time shift into some hyperspeed. When did it change, was it when I got married, when my first was born? Or does it happen at a certain age wether you have kids or not? Do you hit 25 and time speeds up. And why is it just when you want life to slow down that it suddenly decides to speed up?
Okay, so there is my little growing older rant. It isn't that I mind getting older, I don't. It just seems to happen so fast. I guess the worst part is that I'm going to close my eyes and wake up to find my kids are grown.
SO...here are my new years goals (though I never really do this- I think I wrote down new years goals when I was 16, but that is all I can remember)
Seriously, this is what I hope to learn in the next year...

1. To spend more time laughing and playing with my kids
2. Learn to enjoy each day more- not let the little things bug me so much (not as easy as it sounds!)
3. Learn something new- I don't know what, just something. Something that just sounds fun or interesting.
4. Teach my kids something I already know- double dutch, basketball, crocheting, cooking...something
5. Be a better example to my kids (this one will take a lifetime, I'm so flawed, just like everyone else) ;~)
6. Spend a lot of time laughing with my hubby

It won't slow life down but hopefully I can learn to take it all in and make it worth the time we have here.