So It's Been Awhile

I don't know where the time goes, and why blogging regularly seems so hard.  I guess because it is tough to choose between living life and recording it.  Time passes so quickly you feel like you have to live every flipping, fleeting moment as hard as you can -- if you have the time to record, you'd be crazy not to use every one of those moments to live mas, as they say.  To that point, I remember the opening photo, at Lake Louise, and the ones below, like they were yesterday -- how can it possibly be that the little girl in these photos is now 15, and my sons 10 and 8?

Who has time to pause and reflect and write when time goes like that, and these beautiful little moments never return?

But my Mom has inspired me of late, by bringing over bits of our family history, like stories about my grandpa Aldin and my great uncle Coy. It is amazing how much I feel in my heart that these stories are central to who I am.  Given my LDS faith, that probably should not be a surprise, but the depth of that feeling still amazes at times.  So I will try to write again, for the stories, and so my kids, and their kids (who I may never know, given how late we started) know and remember a little more about who and what makes them who they are.

To that end, overheard in my house at dinner in the last 24 hours:

Kate:  "Now that I am 15, dad, would you take some time this summer to teach me how to drive?"

Me, gulping hard:  "Well, I have taken out an extra life insurance policy on myself, so I guess we're ready for that."

Kate, without missing a beat: "Glad you did that -- so then I guess its fine if I throw a fork at you."

At which point my dear wife laughed so hard, with a mouthful of food, that we almost should have taken out the life insurance policy on her.

This was followed, at a subsequent sitting, by this exchange:

Kate: "Grandma, what did you watch on TV when you were little?"

Grandma: "Kate, when I was born, there was no TV!"

Keegan, who was enjoying a cookie:  "Grandma, were you born before sugar?"

There aren't very many dull moments around here, for better or worse.  Hopefully I will be better about catching more of them.