and so it begins ...

today is the beginning of the 'bers and i'm not ready for the summer to be over ...

how did this happen?  where did summer go? 

there is so much we didn't get to do! 

there is so much i still want to try to cram into the last few days before school starts ...

last sleep overs at grandmas, last splashes in the pool, last campouts, last late nights 'just because', last walks on the beach, last bits of all that summer is ...

it's always funny to me though ... summer will come again - right? - and there will be sunshine every once in a while thru the 'bers ... and then it will be a whole new year and we'll make resolutions and goals and try to 'start all over again'.  and then i'll be posting that christmas has come and gone all to quickly and that i didn't get all the things done in the 'bers that i wanted to ... it really is a never ending cycle.

i need to be more in the moment.  live. in. the. moment.  stop looking back and forward, regretting and wishing, bemoaning and counting down.  gotta remember ... the wise words of Oogway "You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present."

so here i sit ... at andy's computer thinking about all the things i have to do today ... but for this moment - i'm living in the moment ... where's my book?  (i'm reading the Hunger Games and The DaVinci Code - seriously ... who does that?  this is my first time ... but i'm totally engrossed in both!)

skadoosh!