2013? 2012 went by quick!

When I was  about ten years old, I remember lying on my bed one afternoon and thinking about my future.  This wasn't something I did very often....in fact it was the very first time. I thought of the year ahead, and figured out how old I would be, and wondered what I would be doing.  But I never considered that I would really still be alive in the year 2000. Now here I am, 65 years old, and amazed that the year is 2013 (although a very yound 2013) and here I am.

Seems like 2012 went by pretty fast.  Maybe it's because we are still raising kids, and they live such busy lives.  Three kids, three different grades in school.  Time seems to pass faster when one has kids in the home.  Or maybe that's just me.  More laundry, more cooking, more overall cleaning, and lots more tired.  Our second daughter has three biological kids.  A year ago daughter and her husband became foster parents to three medically fragile siblings (caused by horrific child abuse) and this year they will be finalizing the adoption of these three.  Husband and I are happy about the adoption. It will raise the number of our grandchildren from 9 to 12.  But as nice as that is, it isn't what I've been thinking about.  It's all the extra laundry, all the extra cleaning and cooking.  Three more noses to wipe, three more mouths to feed, three more children needing clean clothes.  And those snowy days when three more children want to go outside and make snow angels!  You know how that is.....an hour of bundling, then the little sweety needs to go potty!  Or maybe ours are the only ones that have ever done that!  Nah, I didn't think so!  :)

If you are a parent, then you know that when you are considering adding to your family, the extra work doesn't enter into the equation.  But I'm 65 now, and more tired than when husband and I were thinking about our family.  And on that long ago day when I was thinking about my future, I didn't think about any of that either.  Before the thing is done, we don't really seem to care about what the thing will bring into our lives except the joy.  Now that I am thinking of all this, all I'm thinking about is the joy of three added grandchildren!