So summer is finally drawing to a close (sort of, mornings are cool but afternoon's are still HOT) and October is approaching quickly. And what a busy October it is going to be! I'm throwing a baby shower for my dear old friend, Laura, on the 5th, on the 10th we'll be in Virginia for Camille to be a flower girl in a wedding, the 11th is my little niece's 1st birthday, we're going to Memphis the next weekend, on the 22nd we're going to the beach and on Halloween my S.C. brother and sister are visiting...phew!! And while the weather is changing and it's fading from summer to fall, our lives are also changing with it. As stated before, the youngest grandchild is turning one (we've got to stop calling her "Baby Claire") and my own child is getting closer and closer to turning three...I start crying every time I think about it. I brought her home just yesterday...or so it feels like. Before I know it I'm going to blink my eyes and she'll be walking into her kindergarten class. People tell me all the time "Take advantage of this time, it goes by so fast" and I understand what they mean. The older I get the more I appreciate the well known Latin phrase "Carpe diem" which most know to mean "seize the day" or the meaning I like best, "to enjoy, seize, use, make use of ". This life goes by in the blink of an eye and I for one want to enjoy every second of it. My words of advice are to stop every once in a while and take a good look around, enjoy what God has blessed you with. Fall always seems to bring out the thankfulness in me. Maybe you should let it bring it out in you too =)
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