Not Losing My Marbles Without A Fight

I am amazed that the summer is almost over. The county fair is over, the festival season is winding down, school will be starting soon and ........ Did I just say that school will be starting soon? Oh no. That means that my oldest daughter will be on her way to kindergarten all day. Where did the time go?

Up to last week, I could not wait for my daughter to go to school all day. I would have the free time that I dreamed of for so long. I could do activities like golfing, shopping with one and not two kids or having nice lunch without hollering. But now as the day draws near, that free time just doesn't matter as much and sending my first born to all day kindergarten seems so cruel. Really, all day? What will she do without me all day? What will I do without her?

I am reading the book Weird by Craig Groeschel. In the chapter, No Time Like The Present, he describes a dad who realized that he was missing his kids' lives when his daughter was a sophomore in High School. Thinking that he was losing his marbles, he went out and bought a bunch of them. He figured out the number of Saturdays he had left with his daughter before she left for college. He then put that number of marbles in a bowl as a visual reminder of the time he had left with her. Everyday Saturday he would pull one out as the day for her to leave came closer. As he pulled them out, he would make an effort to make that day count in their relationship.

I now have 30 days left before kindergarten and I am looking for places to go and things to see with her. I want to enjoy the time that I do have left during this summer. I know that she will be home after school and on weekends but it is important to spend quality time with her just the same. School just seems like such a prison to me as an adult. As I think about it, it may be. Are not people on Huber Law home on weekends and after work?

Anyway, the way I figure it, I have 624 Saturdays left with Katie before she is 18 years old. Too many marbles to buy and put in a jar now but it is a great way to remember that time with her is precious. It is one of the things that I can’t buy or borrow or loan out. But I can invest it in my family.

Don’t lose all your marbles without an investment.