Fiesta Texas

Yesterday, I took Kenneth and Ian to Fiesta Texas. It is less than 5 miles from our house and we have season passes so we can go when we want to go. It's a lot of fun. Kenneth took a couple of friends and they went off on their own. I kept Ian and we just had a real blast. I watched him play in the water and swim around at the water park. We spent some time in the lazy river, which is a place that you sit in tubes and float around in the water. It's really relaxing. We played and played and played. I watched him swimming around and I just couldn't help but think that our times like that would be fewer and fewer as he is growing up so fast. The baby years flew by for all of my kids and sometimes I wish I could turn back the hands of time and go back to those simple days. Deborah will turn 16 in August and Kenneth will be 13. Where has the time gone? I cry to think they will be out of the house before I know it and I will miss the noise and laughter. I am trying to hold onto every little memory and think of the moments that pass so quickly. I hope I am making great memories for the kids too. I hope they won't look back and think what a terrible mother I was and how I yelled at them to clean up their messes. I hope they will remember days like yesterday or times when we would all play Wii Sports together and Mom would get so involved in the game. Or our many road trips to the west and to the east. They were some fun times too.
I have been thinking about my own youth more and more too. I have so many great memories because of my parents and I am grateful to them. I miss them every day and I want to have them back with me. It seems impossible to think that Mom has been gone for 5 years and it has been almost 6 months since Dad died. I miss the days of hanging out down at Cape May with them and just talking. They are great memories.