Today has felt like a day of milestones!  Two very simple things, both involving money and shopping, but both in my mind significant symbols of Sam growing up (too quickly in my opinion!):  his first shoes and a new, front facing car seat.  It made me feel quite emotional, and not just because the shoe shop was packed again, even though the holidays have finished!  He is growing so quickly, and stages seem to be whizzing by.  He has such a sparkly personality, and is incredibly active – now he’s crawling at lightning speed, and has just started to pull himself up and take little steps along the furniture.  Agh!  Time seems to speed along ever quicker as I get older, and I feel like it becomes ever more important to treasure as many moments as possible, not just with Sam, but in life in general.  The problem I’ve found is that as my need to remember and treasure grows, so my memory’s capacity to remember seems to get worse! That is the illustration of cruelty in my opinion!  And so my need to write, photograph and scrapbook grows.  The ultimate in aides memoire!  I now just need to remember to write, photograph and scrapbook.  Hmmm…