Chris, enjoy every minute of it. We took a ride into town tonight, the kids were bored and wanted to go for a ride. So, in 20 F temperature, we rode into town for.... ice cream!
On the way home, my wife says, "remember when we couldn't go anywhere in the dark because all they did was cry and scream?" Yes, I remember it well. We live about 40 minutes from everything. 40 minutes from Grandma's house. 40 minutes from the store. 40 minutes from the park, from the mall, from, well, everything. When it got dark early in the winter, and we were 40 minutes away from home, it was excruciating to listen to the ear piercing wailing from the back seat.
Tonight, we rode home in the dark. Both kids in the back seat, earbuds in their ears listening to their MP3 players that they got for Christmas this year. No wailing from the back seat, no crying from the back seat, not a sound from the back seat. Just shear silence as they were in their own worlds and total ignoring of us, Mom and Dad who has loved them and nurtured them for years.
The time just flies by too fast.....