These days...

These days seem to be running together and passing by quicker than I can count. I realized today upon having to email my son's teachers about his grades that it's nearly mid September. I've been dreading it coming. I've been anticipating it's arrival for the last couple months. But life, life has a way of distracting you even if just briefly. As I sorted files today at work and thought about what the date was I felt so sad remembering that in 3 days it will be one year that my dad passed away suddenly. So much has happened in the past year that I would love to share with him! I'd love to tell him my son scored his first goal at his middle school game yesterday and then scored another just to make sure it took :) But I know he saw it. I would have loved to have seen his face though. I would love to tell him about my youngest new little business of making a selling braided and knotted bracelets, and that she is doing very well at it. I know he would smile at her ingenuity. He always thought she was something special and was going to take this world by storm. I would love to see his face smiling at her though. I would love to tell him about my oldest having to fight for her position on her high school soccer team and how she has risen to the challenge quite well, and finding herself and her strength in the process. he would smile and say he knew she could do it. But I would have loved to hear him smile at her and say it though. These next few days will be hard. I'm not looking forward to it. But I know when I come out the other end of next week a little stronger he will smile at me and say that's my girl I knew you could do it. I'd still like to hear him say it though...