Things change

I know that we all know that things change, but two examples have happened in the last 24 hours that really drove it home to me.  First, we learned last night that school will be online for at least the first quarter, and I'm guessing it could end up being the entire year, the way things are playing out in our state.  While school is online, there will be very little reason, if any, for Thomas to need to be up before 8:00 each morning.  I can't say this makes me unhappy!  Ironically, it was four years ago that we learned that Robert's bus would be picking him up each day at 5:45, meaning we were going to be having a 5:00 alarm.  This is a change I don't mind at all!

Yesterday the ONLY thing we had on our calendar was Andrew's school training from 3-5.  I happened to be noticing that on our calendar four years ago we had Robert's cross country practice from 8-9:45, a haircut for me at 9, a haircut for Andrew at 10:30, eye appointments for both Catherine and Thomas at noon, Andrew had middle school football practice from 4-6:30, Robert had a doctor appointment at 4, and Catherine had band practice from 6-9.  Yikes!  Certainly, some of the lesser schedule is because of the pandemic (otherwise Thomas would have had band practice yesterday), and some is because there is only one teen contributing to our calendar these days.  Somedays this particular change is hard to accept.   I always knew this is how it would be though, and I'm just going to hold on to each moment my kiddos are here with me!