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Time flies when you aren’t creating new memories
You have a little over 900 weekends from the time your child is born until they head off for college. How do you make that time memorable?
This number may feel like a lot of opportunities, but they can get used up quicker than you might ever realize. Watching your kids grow up feels like it can take forever, but looking back it feels like no time at all.
The Forever Conundrum
Wasn’t she just in diapers a few minutes ago?
This thought crossed my mind watching my oldest daughter leave for her first day of high school last year. My number of childhood weekends with her has dropped to around 150 at this point.
While you are in the process of raising your kids, it can feel like the process takes forever. However, every once in a while you take a moment to look back and reflect on the experience so far and it feels like the blink of an eye.
This is what I think of as the Forever Conundrum. Thinking you have all the time in the world, yet not realizing that your time is limited and you are quickly exhausting opportunities.
My youngest daughter is currently 10 years old, which means that 900 number above is less…
