Just wanted to take a minute to wish Matt a wonderful THIRTIETH birthday today. Yep, he finally hit the big 3-0! Happy Birthday, Honey and enjoy the day. And also happy birthday to Matt’s mom Dianne, who also shares his birthday. I’ll post photos from this weekend’s cookout soon.

Hard to believe, but today is Elijah’s 15th birthday! Just wanted to take a minute to wish him a very, very happy birthday! We love you, Bud!

puts a smile on my face and helps me get through those tough days. I’ve posted it before, but I feel like it’s worth posting again.

I guess I’m getting soft…and the bad thing is I don’t really mind it. I guess that’s what happens as you get older. (I know to some I’m still a child, but older none the less) This is a post that I’ve been meaning to write for a while now it’s just been a matter of finding the time.

It all started with a song that I heard on the radio one day when I was switching channels and ended up on Star Country the local country station. I heard a song and the voice sounded really familiar at it sounded like Hootie and the Blowfish and band that I loved and used to listen to in high school and college. In fact it was part of Hootie it was Darius Rucker the front man singing country. I guess he’s been doing this for a while now, I just hadn’t heard. As I listened to the song I got to thinking, thus where I realized that I’m getting soft.

The title “It Won’t Be Like This For Long” really just hit home with me. All too often I find myself overly consumed with the day to day stresses of life and get frustrated with the little stuff. Frustration sometimes tends to end up putting blinders on that keep me from seeing everything else that’s going on. It tends to happen sometimes when you have both a teenager and a two year old.

The song just made me stop think and realize that even with all the frustrations that go one with Zoe and her being a typical two year old. Trying to get her to understand why she can’t get all her toys out at once and then leave them for someone else to clean up. Or that when we are giving her a bath, that doesn’t mean that we want to take a bath too by her splashing and soaking us. Or that, spending time playing a video game or just a game of UNO with Elijah is more important than checking my e-mail and doing some work on the computer.

I’m not going to sit here and say that I’m perfect and have become a reformed person and been able to keep from getting frustrated as much. Or spending as much time as I should be, but I’m trying to make those things more of a priority. Those moments are only here for so long and then their gone and you can’t get them back.

Here’s the song, I hope you enjoy.