It used to be us!

I guess with the new school year just underway, I must be feeling a little nostalgic.

Every work day, I see the parents dropping off their kids at the Employee Child Care Center. Families that weren't even there at the same time as us. I see the kids happily playing out on the playground and remember when those were my kids. It seems so long ago!

The couple that lives across the street, who we've only met a time or two, had their first baby recently. A boy. I see them going out for evening walks, carrying their new little son, and it makes me think of when that was us. It used to be us!

Floppy little one month old Reed.

Which is not to say that was a better time. It was great...but different. We'll never again have a new baby to stroller around the block with. Never drop another kid off for their first day of kindergarten.

But these kids, they are great. They are growing up more and more every day, and much faster than I'd like. Now it's our turn to have the big kids, making their way through elementary school and learning more about the world every day.

Wouldn't trade any of this.