Do you ever long for the times gone by? Do you remember going out to a local pond with your mom, dad, grandpa or grandma and sitting there on the shore, line baited just waiting for that little orange and yellow bobber to disappear under the water?...
Do you ever long for the times gone by? Do you remember going out to a local pond with your mom, dad, grandpa or grandma and sitting there on the shore, line baited just waiting for that little orange and yellow bobber to disappear under the water? What about going to the park and sitting on that swing feeling like you could touch the sky with your feet as your legs pumped you higher with each pass?
It seems like just in my lifetime these things have faded from existence. Many families require a two person income to just "make ends meet." Weekends, which used to be used for all those family fun times, are now taken up with playing catchup on the house cleaning, yard work and laundry. What's even worse is trying to "keep up with the Jones' " when they have every form of electrical gadget known to man. So we work just a little more so our children can have just a little more. I'm wondering now if maybe just a little less wouldn't have been better so we could have spent just a little more time together.
Yesterday, I would have sworn that my daughter was still running around in pigtails and braces and my son was sitting there concentrating on the art of tying his shoe. Today my daughter is a Junior in High School and my Son towers over me. I look back and think are they going to have any of those sort of memories of their childhood. I hope they will remember the trips to the parks, and the picnics with the ducks.
I wish I had just some of that time back to spend a little more time doing things with them like planting flowers, fishing and building castles in the sand. People always told me that one day you turn around and your children are all grown up and I just always thought time couldn't go that fast. Now I am a full fledged believer in time travel.
Take the time to go fishing, draw in chalk on your sidewalks or just make mud pies. Hopefully if you take this extra time then years from now you will hear your children telling their children how they used to make mud pies with you when they were little.
