Carpe Diem

The dust has settled from this past week's flurry of activity. Girl Scout cookie sales are over! My girls earned enough money to go to encampment in Anchorage. I am so proud of all their hard work. Thank you to all who supported them!

Somewhere in there I had a birthday. Hooray for me!

I'm not afraid of getting older, just of wasting the time I am given. I fear that I am losing great opportunities to live well by just eking out. There are some who live every moment to its fullest, and others who muddle through each day, hoping for something better to come along. It is not just mothers in danger of getting stuck in this rut, but all of us. Who among us has not counted down to Friday at work, then looked back and thought "Wow, that went by fast!"? Every day is a gift, every moment a blessing. Life is fleeting, precious.

The gift of youth is vision. The gift of age is perspective.