Time and other random stuff

Like sands through the hour glass. . . .it slips away faster than I can catch it. 

We have been back from our week long conference in Texas for almost 2 weeks now and I still can't seem to catch my breath.  The weekend we were gone our son moved out into his first new apartment.  It wasn't a surprise, we knew it was coming.  He had no good reason to move out other than the need to jump out of this nest and test his wings.  He has chosen well.  He has an amazing apartment, a very sweet roommate, and he is just simply "inside happy".  I am very proud of him.  We went to see his apartment shortly after we got back home and learned that he really didn't move, he just relocated himself.  The cabinets were empty, there was no furniture AT ALL.  No food in the fridge.  He was just loving living in a new place, even with nothing there.

So last weekend we spend the entire weekend, even late into the night on Friday and Saturday, moving his bedroom furniture and other items from our home to his home.  Then shopping. . . .kitchen wares, bathroom stuff like towels and a shower curtain and extra TP.  Groceries and such.  His place now looks more like a home than a shell of an apartment.  However these two mama's are exhausted. 

There has definitely been some adjusting to do.  There is no more nightly hugs, and "good-nights".  There is now the learning of new boundaries.  He is on his own, he is is own person.  He doesn't really need us in the same capacity he has before.  Do we call and check in or do we not call and check in?  If we call are we smothering him or making him feel like we don't believe he will make the right choices or he's doing the right things?  OR, if we call will he just know it's because we miss him and want to hear that sweet voice?

I've also been busy editing pictures from the conference and getting them up on facebook and the website for the churches.  I took over 2000 pictures.  It took me the entire two weeks to go through them all.  I finally finished them last night.  DONE!  Now I have to edit all the audio recordings from all the services from that weekend.  I don't think I'm gonna get through that near as fast as I did the pictures. 

I miss my life.  I miss my best girl!  I need a day shift job!  I'm not liking that we don't see each other every night.  And she's not liking being home alone now in the evenings while I'm at work and our best boy is enjoying his new place.  I miss my camera and taking pictures of things besides people and church.  I haven't been able to keep up on my project 64 that I was loving so much.  I guess I'm gonna have to play catch up again.  I also was wanting to do a Project 365, but i think I only got about a weeks worth of pictures for that on a blog I was dedicating totally to photography. A blog that looks a little thrown together and needs a nice sweet face lift.  A blog that I created then ran off and neglected just as I did this one.

One day. . . .I just want time to stand still for one day.  Let me catch my breath and catch up with life and then one day I will discover how to slow the pace down. 

And. . . .this weekend, I think I will make a date with my best girl and my camera.