Let them be little ’cause they’re only that way for a while
Give them hope, give them praise, give them love every day
Let them cry, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle
Oh just let them be little ~Lonestar
Kei is growing up so fast. Yesterday, wasn’t it was just yesterday? she was learning to ride her bike and swim. She was watching Dora and yelling Swiper No swiping [although she vehemently denies she ever watched it]. She was clutching her pencil, with her bottom lip caught in her teeth, copying the letters of her name. She was coloring by taking a crayon and scribbling all over the page, so proud of what she created. She was falling asleep with her head on the table, exhausted by the day. She was walking around with my high heels on like a just born baby giraffe.
I want to savor I want to taste every day. Every moment I have with her. Each one is precious and go by all too quickly. She is 11, in 7 years she will be going to college. 7 years! How can I only have her with me for 7 more years?
My prayer:
Please God
Let me teach her,
Let me guide her,
Let me inspire her,
Let me appreciate all the moments..every one of them
Let me never forget.
To giggle in the dark
Dance in the rain
Walk in the moonlight
Stop and smell the roses
Look under the rocks
Splash in streams
Have tickle wars
Count the stars
Catch lighting bugs
Always listen
Search for rainbows
Take the byroads
Eat ice cream for dinner
Stay up all night and sleep all day
Make blanket tents
Stop and make wishes in fairy rings
Skip
Make Kool Aid Popsicles
Make clover necklaces
Roast marshmallows over a fire
Have a pile up on the bed complete with dog
Swing as high as we can
Let me remember every single day
That all too soon
It is gone.
*Poof*
Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won’t do that.î ~ Walt Disney
Hi Karen, I saw where you had posted a comment on another blog saying that you was from Alabama. We may be neighbors. I am from Alabama also.
Children do grow upentirely too fast. It seems like only yesterday when I brought my first one home from the hospital almost 12 years ago. She’s turning in to quite a young lady now and I cherrish each day that she & I have to build a relationship because I know my time having her at home with me is short.
Beautiful, Karen. I think Kei will always do those joyful things, because you’ve helped her see that those things are precious, and worth treasuring. What a gift that is!
My boy is about to turn 11óhe and Kei are almost the same age 🙂 Just the other day, I looked at him and saw him as separate from me, the boy who would be an adult. It was hard! Luckily then he came and sat on my lap (so BIG!) and was my little one again. We have our kids with us nowóreally with us. And we’re so lucky to be connected the way we are. I am grateful for that, every single day.
Thanks for commenting at my blog with the SOTW link…that is new to me!
I also like your post…they grow too fast, don’t they?
Oh that is one lovely prayer! Amen. I can vouch that they grow up all too quickly. I miss my girls so much this week especially, I just got used to one living interstate, now one is two hours drive away and the other little monster has discovered the night life. tut tut. LOL, she is a good girl really, just spreading her wings. I think with both her sisters gone she feels very grown up now. 🙂 Savour every moment for sure, they grow up way too fast.
Beautiful.
My Mom always told me that the efforts will put in now will pay off for the rest of our lives. This time with our girls is a gift. Every single day is a gift, the good and the bad, the hard days and the easy days. No matter where our lives lead us we will always have this time together to look back on.
People assumed that Grace would only be home for one year (part of me expected her to want to return to school too). So now that the school year is starting to wind down she is being asked if/when she is returning to school. She smiles and tells whoever asks that she is not. This year has been a journey of self-discovery and I love that I have the blog to look back over it all. Just think in 10 years Kei will see this post you wrote and know exactly how you were feeling about her one day back in 2011……..
Although she may grow up, the relationship you have is so strong, you will always be close.
It was yesterday. I got teary reading this. I feel so the same way as you. I often tell people that we’ve slowed down time-just a little-by homeschooling. Just because when they were in school I didn’t see them for the best part of their day. I got rushing in the morning, cranky in the afternoon, trying to get them to do homework, rushing to dance or gymnastics or whatever, and maybe a little nice time at dinner or reading together and then bed. Now I get the whole day. But it still moves too fast.
I have always loved that song by Lonestar!