Freezing time and growing older...

Time is just flying by, and I know that as a Mom there are moments I would like to freeze time and keep my kids young forever...

 

 

My oldest is turning 15 in a few weeks, and is enjoying the swim team.  My son just started Kindergarten.  My eight year old is almost constantly telling me about a new boy she likes it seems to change every few weeks, and my youngest wants to go to school like her sibs.  Pretty soon, my little nest is going to be empty...
In just three short years we will have three adult children in our family, and our youngest will be in school full time!  Two years after that four young adults...it seems like a person just blinks and all of a sudden they're all grown up.  Where did the time go.  My heart aches for the time when they were little and I could cuddle them and love on them all I wanted to...

but on the flip side of things...

I can't wait for them to grow up, and watch them succeed in life.  I can't wait to see them making their own way in this tough world, because I know I have done my best and prepared them as much as I can.  I know they're going to have trials and tribulations in their lives, but I also know that they'll pull through and be stronger because of it.  They have their Faith, and their God, to pull them through.  They have the unconditional love of us, their family, so that no matter what happens they have somebody to turn to.

I am thankful for each and every moment.  A lot of the memories are frozen in time and at least in pictures they will be little forever.  I will always have them to look back on and remember, but I will also value the person they are becoming.  I will cherish them, I will miss them, and I love them...but I need to remember sometimes that it is all part of growing up and growing old.