Five Equals Fast

Life happens fast. Especially if you’re suddenly thirty and have four kids who refuse to stop growing up.

Then, life happens really fast.

Unless of course you’ve been waiting forever to finally turn five and your favorite animal is now the cheetah because you used to like giraffes when you were little, but they just go too slow for you now that you’re all big and stuff. (Of course, that doesn’t make you above sleeping with your much-loved stuffed giraffe ‘Sprinkles’ every night, but I suppose that’s beside the point.)

Then, I guess, life happens too slowly.

Because as soon as you’re done eating your specially- requested cheetah cake and your ice cream, you ask in your adorably un-big-boy falsetto, “I get to go to kindergarten on Monday, right? Cause I’m five now?”

Um, not exactly! So just slow down, little man.

August will come soon enough, even though you can’t imagine waiting that long to start school. And then, before you know it, you’ll be thirty and decorating your own soon-to-be-kindergartener’s birthday cake and telling them to slow down and enjoy the journey.

Because, even if we can’t be cheetah-five-year-old speedy, I promise you this… life really does happen fast.