The time of my life.............

When you think of the time of your life you think of a trip or vacation....... when I think of the time of my life  I think of these moments in my life right now, no trip or vacation, but the time of school football games with Hannah, School carnivals with all the kiddos, class parties, being homeroom mom, being on the PFC board with the schools, having family time that is just relaxing and not stressed. The other night we decided to have a campfire with the kids and tell scary stories like I once did as a kid, to sit and watch my children enjoy just sitting in front of a fire roasting hot dogs and listening to Garrett tell them stories made me think about how fast life goes by, looking at Brandon and seeing that he is no longer the baby I once carried on my hip is a young man, Cy who once was a little stinker getting into everything and not ever staying still is sitting quietly listening very intensively, Hannah who will always look like a baby to is now worried about what she should wear and if she looks ok even though we are sitting in front of a fire with just us there, and Westin is no longer the baby that let me carry all over the place is now walking around holding his head high to show he wasn't scared of the "Lion" his daddy was speaking of in the story. People don't look at life as these times being the "time of your life" they are worried about vacations and how much they spent to buy their kids a new video game, and running off to resorts and leaving their kids with a sitter they may not even know. This is the life I enjoy, I enjoy the slow passed life off carving pumpkins and doing holiday crafts together as a family instead of buying premade pumpkins because your too busy to take time to sit down and make a little messed that easily cleans up and make the memories with your kids so in hopes one day they will do the same things with their children, sooooooo the next time you think of "the time of your life" think about is it really the time of your life or are you letting the most important times in your life pass you by?