Taking A Step Back

This weekend took me back to a time when the only responsibility I had was to keep my room clean and MTV was something that didn't exist yet.  I spent Saturday cleaning with the windows open and our radio/intercom system playing throughout the house.  I was cleaning and the kids were content each doing there own thing.  My girl helped out for a little bit and that always makes me happy, but I was on a mission and my girl had to move on to her own things at some point.  My boy was playing on the back porch in his sand table while I cleaned the living room.  I love being able to have the door open to the back porch it makes the house feel so open.  The day was peaceful because I wasn't listening to Phineas and Ferb on the TV and when I say Phineas and Ferb I mean that I am not listening to my boy play only the songs over and over again.  He loves the songs and I have to admit they are pretty catchy but today we turned the TV off and the day was perfect.  I am not sure why this day made me think of my childhood but I am sure it was more about the feeling I had experienced with my kids being content and happy with just being home.  My thoughts go to when I was a child and would lay in front of the TV on the floor watching some special that was on TV.  Seems like they did that a lot back then,  holiday specials or some musical special, it was all special. 

Since I am sort of stuck in the past right now I was going threw some of our pictures from when the kids were little and I can't believe that they are growing up so fast.  Time moves way to fast and I have always been about quality over quantity and I truly hope that the time I am spending with my family is full of the stuff that will make them look back one day with thoughts of happiness.