To a Decade...

So, after reading a friends blog...I got to thinking about the past decade.

It is funny isn't it? In the day-to-day...things just happen. They happen and we move on, probably better and stronger people because of them...but still, we move on. We say 10 years like it is nothing, because I suppose in the grand scheme of things, it's not. However, as I looked back over my last ten years, my family's last 10 years....My list just kept getting longer.

Oh how 10 years changed me...
I look back at certain things, and think, "really, that was only 7 years ago", because it feels like forever. Life is completely different now than it was then...and I have grown so much that it seems like much longer.

When the year 2000 came...
*I had JUST turned 23 years old.
*So was Kevin.
*Karman was 7 and she slept through the new millenium appearing.
*We were living in low-income apartments in Belligham.
*We weren't even married yet (married June, 2000) but had been dating 6 years.
*Karman had only been living with us for 3 years.

During the decade...
*We got married
*Kevin was hired on with Holland America
*Karman was diagnosed with and treated for cancer.
*She also, in that 10 years, was declared CURED!
*Karman went from 7-17, from 2nd grade to high school, in what seems like NO TIME!
*We moved 3 times
*We had our first baby...who went from baby to 6, from infant to 1st grade...
*And our second....who went form baby to 3, from infant to preschool...
*We bought a house
*We bought our first minivan...and sold it...bought another....and sold it....and bought one more.
*We remodeled A LOT!
*We lost family members, and gained family members.
*We reunited with old friends, and made many new.

This however, is why time feels so fast to me now. I get it, as a mom, when people say time goes by so fast, that if you blink you will miss it. See, Karman, in 2000, was one year older than Tyler is now. Now, she is 17...just like that. I swear, the fact that she is a Junior still takes my breath away. So many hard things that we went through, but still it feels now, like it went so fast! This decade will go just as fast, and before we know it Tyler will be 16, and Maky 13.

I am trying, with everything in me, to be present in, and enjoy the NOW!

I leave the decade behind me, a MUCH stronger person...a MUCH better person.
I, personally, have changed and grown so much.

My hope for this next decade is to savor every minute!