Is it really 2009 already?

Every year moves at higher speed than the last. Does that happen for everyone? I just got used to writing 2008. I am finally remembering gloves in the car, but spring is almost hear. And somebody stole my little girl Courtney. She now looks and acts eerily like a budding teenager. Her shoe size is 8.5. That is just not right. It can't be happening. Not yet.......But it is and there is nothing I can do but enjoy every moment as it whirls past. Not long ago I had two daughters in diapers and two other elementary aged girls. I thought my dog days of diaper changing would NEVER end and I would be old before my girls grew up and I had some "freedom." But now I don't crave that freedom I longed for. I want the clock to slow down. I want my girls to be little and sweet forever.