Time Flies

It surely does…

Besides the fact that we have been building a home for almost one year (with more issues than I care to discuss right now), trying to sell our current home, and I have been looking for a new career (within the same field) for the past month or so, everything has been status quo.

Today was the first walk through of our new home – a day I couldn’t believe would ever come!  Being woken by an insane sinus headache was not the ideal way I had envisioned this day to begin.  Before I left the house I took my allergy medicine along with Mucinex DM, praying that I would be able to make it to AND through the walk through completely clear-headed and not in pain.  (I am in no way affiliated with Mucinex but can I tell you that it is a miracle medicine???)   Thankfully my good friend Jamie also informed me that Advil has no negative interaction to Mucinex, so I took that as well.  The pain in my head every time I moved it was not comfortable, to say the least.

I left the office at 12:30 to be there promptly at 1:00 pm.  I turned into my driveway (loved that feeling…my new driveway!!) at 12:59pm.  After gathering my bags – the usual tote bag filled with everything but the kitchen sink, and my lunch bag(too excited to eat lunch before getting there) – I entered my soon-to-be home. It was an amazing experience to see this home “grow” from the ground up.  Every week we would visit, progress or not, to take pictures and envision ourselves in this home, within this community, cooking in that kitchen, putting the boys to bed in their new bedrooms.  If today wasn’t a reality check I don’t know what is!  SO EXCITED!!!

About three hours of “walking through”  later (yes three), we were in the kitchen remarking about the fact that the molding above the cabinets were in no way the same white as the actual cabinets, did my phone ring.  Caller ID told me that it was the kids’ elementary school.  That could mean one of two things – either my youngest was sent to the principal’s office (which in truth only happened twice but still resonates in my mind…) or one of the boys got hurt.  Thankfully it was the latter – my oldest threw up.  Note: I am not thankful that N threw up, rather that Ms. Lant (said principal) wasn’t on the other end of the line telling me something I didn’t want to hear this close to the end of the year.

I left to pick up my little man while my husband finished the exterior walk.  As I pulled out of what is going to be our new driveway, I couldn’t help but feel nostalgic.  Where was I ten years ago?  Newly married, going through the process of building our first home, living my new co-mingled life with my husband.  Where did the time go?  Ten years later, I am happily married with two amazingly wonderful boys (don’t forget Sadie), pursuing my career, and moving on to the next step in my life.  I couldn’t ask for anything more.