When I started this blog I named it my memories because at this stage of my life I figured alot of what I might post would be my memories. Lately I have really been thinking about how fast time flies by. In February Alan will have been with the city of Olympia 10 years and we are in our tenth year of living here....then I was thinking how fast the last almost 40 years have gone by since the birth of my first child( sorry Craig), then 30, then 20 and last the past 10. In 10 years all of my children have left home. Since we have moved here three of them got married.. two of them graduated high school here... one left on a mission ...and started college....9 of my 10 grandchildren have been born...with one due in December. It seems to go by in a blink.
When I was Relief Society president a number of years ago my bishop Mike Ryan had a saying that he used all the time...I don't know if it was his or not...but it went something like this...".Our lives are so busy being caught up in the thick of thin things" I have always remembered that and somehow these days it has more meaning. This past week I have been thinking about past Halloweens with my children....how excited they would be weeks before planning what they would be ....and how sugared up they were for weeks after( I always wanted to dole out the candy till a dentist told me let them eat it all then brush their teeth.....very smart man!) I really am a slow learner by nature....any way I wanted to post some of my memories of this time...but it ended up being frustration because I realized I have misplaced the folder with Craigs childhood pics in it....so after many days I decided to go ahead anyway....( sorry there aren't more pics of you but I will keep looking) although the whole experience really did make me feel like a bad mother....how can you misplace your son's pics....
On the up note it did make me very happy looking at past Halloweens and made me look forward to this years pics......enjoy!
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