Sorry.

It is incredible to me how fast time passes. How one day you dream about being a cool high school kid and the next day you're dreaming about having your own kids...what?!

This phase of life is so strange and wonderful. Being young and ambitious and in love means that nearly every day a new idea for the future invades my mind. It's a great sign that at this point, plans are so useless. Whatever happened to the ability to just squeeze every ounce of fun out of every day? Now sometimes all I want to do is squeeze every moment of sleep out of my days.

My kids at the daycare always go a million miles an hour. From the moment they walk in the door, they're ready to play. And they play ALL DAY LONG. How I wish I had that energy and that passion for just playing, just imagining and creating and running, jumping, dancing, singing.

It's great to be young. It's a blessing to be able to recognize what you have and to not take it for granted.

I heard a quote once that went "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Ugh. I hate this quote. For me, loving means that as much as a tiny little worm as it makes me feel, I have to suck it up and apologize all the time. I notice this with the kids at daycare. It is SO EASY TO BE MEAN. The hard part of love, and of life, is being the person willing to step outside of their comfort zone so that those we care about feel loved.

When we get older we forget how precious apologies are. When I see my 4 year olds cry and then hug and apologize and run off holding hands it reminds me just how simple it is to fix what's broken. The problem when we get older is that our pride gets in the way of that simple fix.

Tell those you love that you love them. Remind them how much they mean to you. Even when they do little things, give them lots and lots of thanks and hugs and warm wishes. For you never know how far those words will sink into their hearts.