Reminiscing

So I took my kids and my nieces and nephews to the Intermediate School last week (this is the old High School) and they were playing on the playground. I meandered over to the cement block with our class's names all carved in and had a flood of memories as I read all those names there, remembering old friends and acquaintances, remembering what it felt like to be in High School and get to hang out with friends by the flag pole everyday, goofing off all the time. I miss those days sometimes. :) I will forever be grateful to all my great friends that made my high school years so much fun that I can always look back on them with good memories. When I think back on high school the things that usually come to mind are (in no particular order):

• Hanging out by the flag pole (I think we may have spent half of our high school career by that flag pole!) :)
  
• Choir classes (sitting next to Jami, Cori, & Clea)
  
• Going to lunch everyday (especially that time when Jess, Bethany, Cori, and I went together almost everyday)
  
• Playing piano with Jessica in the Seminary building :)
• Picking Becca up in the morning and making that funny noise :)
• Hanging out at Brandy's house (and Mark's house)
• Eating chips & dip with Kami at her house :)
  
• Repelling with Chet and Adam
• The music trip to California
• Laughing and joking all the time
• Feeling the friendship between our whole group
  

I think it's true that you don't realize how good you have it sometimes, til those times are over. So as I remember how much fun high school was and how carefree we were, I try to enjoy my life to the fullest now, knowing that sometime I'll look back on these days and wish that, just for a moment, I could have this time back. I realize that no matter how busy I am or how frazzled I feel sometimes, this is a very special time when my kids are so small and they actually want me around. I want to be able to show them I care now so that when they have hard times when they're older they'll feel like they can come to me and talk to me about anything. I look back on home videos of my girls and think how small they used to be compared to now and I wish I could go back and be a better mother to them, because I know I wasn't then. Keeping that view in perspective, unfortunately, is sometimes easier said than done. I think that's why I like taking so many pictures- so that when the moment has passed you can always look back and treasure it forever, and remember again how good that time in your life was.