Slipping Through My Fingers...X3

Something new we did this year was spend New Year's Eve and New Year's Day together in Carmel

We stayed at the Coachmann's Inn and welcomed in the New Year on the beach

At the stroke of midnight we toasted with sparkling cider on the 10th hole at Pebble Beach
Yes, we climbed up!


Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey with Kylie

With Macy

With Abby

Macy Marie and her purple purse (19 years old)

Kylie Kay (22 years old)

Abby Ann (16 years old)

Our Three Girls

I have been thinking a lot lately about how quickly the years slip by...

I love the words from the song by ABBA entitled, "Slipping Through My Fingers"...
If you will read them below or listen to them as they play, you will know exactly

how I feel about my girls...

Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness

And I have to sit down for a while

The feeling that I'm losing her forever

And without really entering her world

I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

That funny little girl

Slipping through my fingers all the time

I try to capture every minute

The feeling in it

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Do I really see what's in her mind

Each time I think I'm close to knowing

She keeps on growing

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

Barely awake, I let precious time go by

Then when she's gone there's that odd melancholy feeling

And a sense of guilt I can't deny

What happened to the wonderful adventures

The places I had planned for us to go

(Slipping through my fingers all the time)

Well, some of that we did but most we didn't

And why I just don't know

Slipping through my fingers all the time

I try to capture every minute

The feeling in it

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Do I really see what's in her mind

Each time I think I'm close to knowing

She keeps on growing

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

And save it from the funny tricks of time

Slipping through my fingers

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

My Visiting Teacher. Ruthie Davenport

• She makes me smile and laugh

• She takes silly pictures with me...we took a ton to get one decent picture
  
• She calls me when I'm sick
  
• She goes with me to "look-e-loo" at Christmastime

• She is my friend

To Blog or Not to Blog?

I'm sitting here this morning contemplating whether I should keep this blog going. It seems that I do pretty good for awhile and then life happens. When it does, I get so behind that it is hard to get back to it. I don't think that I have anything extraordinary to share or post, but my college girls who live away from home like to check in and see what "Mom" has posted and what the family has been doing while they are away. So, I think I owe it to them to post today. They have been commenting to me that it is about time I put something new on the blog.

It has been great fun to keep up with Macy's happening in London as she is there for BYU Study Abroad right now. I know how much I love reading her posts and seeing her photos of the people she is "loving", places she is seeing, things she is eating, feelings she is having, etc. So, look in on her if you want as her link is to the right on my blog.

Kylie is enjoying teaching elementary ballroom at a school in Orem, Utah. Her kids got a Gold rating at their recent competition and she said there were very few given out that day, as it is the highest award they give. So, it was so fun to see that Anne Marie had included a few photos of attending that competition to see Kylie's kids in her blog (link to the right).

So, I guess all in all, it is pretty fun being a part of the blogging world. Even if I do get behind and mostly just check in with other family and friend's blogs. Bless their hearts for staying current and not being like me....either in a state of blog-a-ria or the opposite (if you know what I mean). Life...funny how that works out!

Kristy