Don't Blink...Life happens fast!

There has been much said about the passage of time...time flies, a watched pot never boils, the days are long but the years are short, etc.  I am sure you could think of a few sayings too.  We all know them by heart. We are seemingly always aware of time, trying to slow down or hurry up, turn back the clock or watch the clock, capture a moment or be in the moment. 

The reason I bring this up is I just had the strangest 2 weeks. And when I reflected on it as a block of time, I thought about how odd and funny all these things were all mashed up together. To me, these single moments when added up, were more than just the sum of their parts.

So here it my list of moments...in basic chronological order.

1.  Henry loses his first tooth
2.  School starts...and we have an earthquake.
3.  Hurricane Irene hits...high winds, lots of rain
4.  No power or running water for 4 days
5.  School is cancelled for 2 days
6. Henry accidently swallows a metal piece of a toy airplane
7. Power back on (YAY!) and school resumes (BOO!)
8. Armed with rubber gloves and a plastic fork, I begin the stoole search for the lost airplane piece, in a bucket on the deck, everyday.
9.Caroline picks the cello for her school strings intrument
10. Henry slides hands first into a gigantic fresh pile of dog poop at the soccer field
11. Someone has abandoned 2 domesticated pot-belly pigs in a fenced area at Jack's soccer practice and they begin to mate in front of a crowd of on-lookers.
12. Henry loses 2nd tooth
13. Caroline now can play the first few notes of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on the cello.
14. Jeff tries to learn the theme to Jaws on Caroline's cello.
15. Lucy is frightened by the sound of the cello.
16. I cannot "find" the lost airplane piece.
17. After just two weeks of middle school, Jack announces he is growing his hair long.
18. At our favorite restaurant, Henry slips and drops a bowl of pad thai onto my feet ( I am wearing flip-flops).

Those were the highlights of the last 14 days of my life. Some things were amazing, some funny, others extremely digusting. But when rewound and replayed in my mind, I guess it was just life being life...time being filled with living.  So here I sit, wondering what the next two weeks will bring...Tornados? Splinters? Aliens? But most of all, the question that has been nagging me the most is where in heaven is that piece of airplane?

Carpe Diem!
-Meghan