My boy!

We are working on getting his blog ready for his trip! Practicing
posting pics!

One Week

How many times have we said, "Wow, the week flew by!". Or "Man, the
week is dragging on!". For me this week is a week I want to last
forever. In one short week my baby will be on a plane heading to
Europe. I am so excited for him and the things he is going to see,
experience, relate to and learn from; however, I am absolutely
terrified. That's why this week means so much to me. Tomorrow T and
I will be having a mommy & T day. We have a few plans but most
importantly it is the time together I will cherish the most.
We are going to work on getting his phone set up to do his own blog,
take some new photos of him, and enjoy the day. Then as the week
progresses the entire family will be at the beach. It will be nice
for the family to spend time before Terri and T leave.
So Lord, it's me again. Can you make this week go by extra slow? Can
you give us too many "Kodak" moments that we are overwhelmed? Thanks,
I really appreciate it! After this week you can speed it up like
lightning fast!
:) Alicia

Time, keeps on slipping, slipping into the future...

Three weeks, 21 days, 504 hours, until my baby leaves me. I am absolutely terrified thinking about the fact that he is leaving for a 25 day trip overseas and I won't have enough time with him. Terrified. Up until the day he leaves it seems that life is busy, busy, busy. When Lord am I getting time with him? Time to just sit, talk, reflect, say all that I can before he leaves. Especially tell him that he must make sure he has his passport at all times and to be sure that he watches his stuff while on the train and that washing his hands must be done each time before he eats anything, because Lord knows what or whom has touched that railing before him. Oh and that he must use all of his senses when he is traveling, and that his prayers should be daily, hourly and to stop to see how God is working during the trip. Last but not least to read all the museum signs & to remember the way back to the hotel by street signs & landmarks. Oh, and always know what the emergency numbers are, hotel number and embassy location. AAAAaahhhhhhh!!!!!

Lord, when? Can you give me a day & time that you know you'll let things settle just long enough for him and I? We can add it to my iCal and I will put an alarm on so I don't miss it.

Please. I need time with him and that clock is not being nice by ticking by.

Seriously, time is critical right now and for some reason I cannot find enough of it.

When I look at the fact that in one summer he will be gone from me for 30+ days it truly freaks me out. The two weeks we will have at the beach house will be nice, but both those weeks he has friends visiting, boys & a girl. Sigh. I need time.

Am I over thinking when I am begging that God give me an appointment for some quality time with my only, little, sweet, son? I wonder how many times God gives us an appointment with him and we forget it, delete it or try to rearrange it. I know for sure that lately all I've asked of him is to find more time in the day for me to get things done. Surely, adding time to my day can be considered noble since I want more time to do the things I know he would be pleased with. However, am I really doing those things for him, or for me thinking he would be pleased? There lies my dilemma.

Time for God, family, friends, school, career, vacation, and let's face it...time to post my latest status on Facebook. Time seems to be what I am missing most lately and the time I need for the most important things in life are finding themselves at the bottom of my "time list".

Do we find ourselves asking for more time for the things we need to get done, so that our time with the ones we hold so dear is less stressful? But during that time we are thinking of the things we've put on hold to get done and doesn't that just defeat the purpose of taking time to get things done in the first place? How does God want me to use my time? Does he give me the gift of teaching so that I spend my time doing what is best for the kids? Does he know that this time takes away from the time I have with my family? Does he want me to put more time into one and not the other?

The saga of time I guess will always be an issue. I guess that is why God made a sunrise & sunset, because there has to be a beginning and ending to our day. If not, some of us would not slow down or even stop. I just hope that sometime between the beginning and ending of the days, I can find the time to spend with my adventurous teenager. Oh and I need time to teach him how to blog from his iPhone so I can know how he is spending his time overseas.

Lord, can ya fit that into the appointment calendar too?!