We Make Time..

"We make time for things that are important..."

think about it we really do.

Its not my quote, nor as anyone ever said this to me in a tacky way (although I have to admit I've shared it with a person or two). Amy and I made time last weekend to help her brother move, in a few weeks we will go to my sisters wedding, although I didn't make my other sisters graduation. It was important to me, I sent a gift; but I didn't have time in my schedule to travel to the actual ceremony.

I make time for my friends, one called me not too long ago and wanted me to fly eight hours to enjoy one day of skiing with him, I did. Amy's Mom wanted her to come to Tulsa to go shopping about a month ago, she did. Those things were important to us. I never want people to feel like they aren't important to me. I remember in High School I was OVERLY INVOLVED. It had nothing to do with my College resume (Again only Amy can do the funny little line), or my popularity (I was probably popular for being a nerd and nothing else) but I just couldn't say no to anyone. As other students would start projects I would sign on, as the Principal would ask me to spearhead a group or community service project I would sign on. It got to the point where I started letting everyone down. I was making time for everything, but not the things that were really important to me.

When Amy and I met I was a bus driver on the weekends, I operated a vending route, I taught swim lessons when I could fit it in, I worked full time as a Maintenance guy, I flight instructed weekday afternoons, and I was holding about 15 credit hours of school during the evenings.

With that schedule its a wonder I found time for her; but after the firrst date I knew she was important to me and my life. I made time for 15 minutes on Wednesdays to call her. And about 3 hours on Friday to spend time with her. Thats not much -- we spent much of that time talking about our future together and she spent a lot of time making sure our whole lives weren't going to be so tightly scheduled.

its okay to laugh -- we laugh about it..

She is so patient, when we got married I don't guess we had spent more than 500 hours together. In perspective I had spent more time flying airplanes than I had with the woman I was marrying.

If I put things on a rating scale, God always comes first, Amy second, our famililes third and then everything else. We make it a point to make time for things that are important; be we come second on the list and sometimes things lower on the list get slided for number one or number two.