I'm taking a break...

From school that is.  Maybe a year....maybe 3.  {Who knows}  I need to.  I have to.  And this pretty much sums it all up:

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make.  I did not live int he moment enough.  This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs.  There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four and one.  And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night.  I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get onto the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed.  I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and getting it done a little less"           Anna Quindlen

I don't want to look back and regret not spending as much time with them, while they are little...because one day I will look back and cry as they are walking out the door to move onto college or a new "adult" life...and wish I had those little boys back, all to myself.  Maybe I will start journals of all our fun adventures, and those little moments that I will want to remember.  So I can look back and "re-live" the moment...like in a diary, with pictures....we'll see.