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Don’t Blink by Mike Chase

We anticipated it, dreamed about it and now it is flying by – SUMMER!  What an amazing time to travel together with family, spend weekends together and hang out at the cottage. You blink and a summer of history flies by.  Here is what I mean.

In 2009 both of my children got married and no longer live in Michigan.  Dan finished his Masters Degree in Architecture while his wife has two years left in that program.  Ball State and Indiana see them much more than we do.

My daughter Anna and her husband Marc moved to Wisconsin after graduating from Northwood University where she is developing some marketing programs for an innovative veterinarian business and he is working in sales.

The days of laughing around the dinner table, random discussions during Whitecap games, hanging out on the deck and Canadian fishing trips have become family memories that I treasure even more as the kids have begun their own journeys together.

For twelve straight years until 2006, we took a Canadian Walleye trip in August.  So after a 4 year hiatus, I talked my dad into one more fishing trip.  He will be 79.  He is like a kid in a candy shop.  We fish, laugh, tell the same exaggerated stories and enjoy every moment of being together.

And the moral of my reminiscing?  Don’t get so trapped in the game of surviving and success that we don’t enjoy the trip of life that is blurring by. Make time for your family, give your parents a call, tell someone that you love them and don’t blink.  It will soon be gone.