Snow Flies...and So Does Time

It's snowing...again! Very lovely, though...and, the temp is creeping up from below zero to the teens, and I hear we're going to see the 20's this week. Ahhhh...you know we're desperate when the 20's sound like a summer breeze!

I hope your weekend was a good one! I finally brought Aaron to the doctor's - he's had this croupy cough for a LONG TIME. I knew he had an infection of some sort, so we got him an antibiotic. They weighed and measured him. We've been bantering back and forth, because he's just a tad bit taller than me. He'll walk up to me and say, "You're short." He gets a kick out of that. I'll insist we're the same height (although I know he's a bit taller...but I'm not going down without a fight!). Well, at the doctor's, they had him take his shoes off, and they measured him at 5'9". (I'm 5'7") He winked at me when they delivered the news and gave me that grin of his. He didn't have to say "I told you so" because it was written all over his face. He passed me in the hall on the way to the waiting room and said "How's the weather down there?" Smart aleck! Then, on the way home he reminds me that in October he'll be 15. I say "...and your point?" He reminds me that in our next calendar year, he'll be getting his driver's license. I acted like I wasn't phased. But, WHAT???!!!!
I know I keep blogging about how my son keeps getting bigger (so does my daughter, btw...) and the kids get older, as if this is a surprise to me. Well...it sort of is. When they were babies, I did expect them to grow into toddlers. And from toddlers to children. But, this children to young adults is BLOWING. MY. MIND. It's as if my brain cannot comprehend this fact. Can you, Mommies of preschool boys, imagine looking across the breakfast table at your little boy one day and seeing him with a moustache? Can you even fathom this possibility? Because it's mind-bending. It doesn't seem that long ago when he was playing with matchbox cars and dinosaurs. I know this topic comes up so often in my posts, but I'm really perplexed. It seems so odd, so foreign, yet it is indeed happening right before my eyes. The transformation. It's beginning in Bridgette, too. I cannot say she looks much like a child anymore. Make-up and bras and shoes that are almost my size. Crazy, this house of four people...almost four grown ups! Wow. In four years Aaron will be going to college. In five, it will be Bridgette. We have so little time left with two of my favorite people in the world.
I look outside my window, and the snow is falling faster now, making things look so different. Life has been like that - changes happening faster and faster, making things look different. Sometimes I wonder where we'll be in another 5 years. Do you ever do that? My life has always changed so fast, it's hard to tell. I wonder where we'll be living, what I'll be doing, what our kids will be doing. I'm so glad, with all of this change, that God is constant. That's one thing I appreciate so much about Him. He is so stable.