Thinking back to my childhood

I've been thinking back a great deal to my childhood, and wondering how on earth the passage of time has flown by.  I'm sounding dramatic I know, and there are so many reasons.  My middle child begins high school in just eight days.  My oldest child has received his driving permit and tomorrow begins his last two years of school.  I just don't understand how this is all possible...not at all.  Our dear friends have their oldest child beginning his senior year, and other good friends have their oldest beginning high school...and I remember he and Catherine in preschool together.  It all just seems unreal.

Of course I miss my dad, and even three years later there are so many things I wish I could call and tell him.  The last several years of his life my sister and I were often his eyes to the outside world.  He had become so homebound at the end, and we did shopping for him and just let him know what was happening in the outside world.  I think back to such fun we had at my grandparents' houses.  We were blessed to be able to live within two miles of both sets of grandparents, and I regret my children didn't get to experience that.  They did get to experience grandparents in other ways, with vacations and the lake.  Again, it's all just gone so quickly!