If there's one thing the new year does for me, it's remind me of how quickly time is passing.
You remember, when you were younger, how a year was an absolutely interminable amount of time? And then you grow up, and then you have kids. And then somewhere around the time your youngest gets to be the mostly-self-sufficient-age (5 or 6 ish), when you wake up from baby and toddler fog, you start wondering, "Where did the time go?" "How did my children get to be so old?" You find yourself saying things like, "How is it already the new year?" and "I feel like we just finished the summer. How is it time for snow again?" Continue reading »