March 13, 2012

• {just a reminder to all you moms of little ones}
  

  
  they will.
  
  the days of changing diapers and chopping food into teeny tiny pieces won’t last forever.
  of drinking your coffee cold and feeling like the refrigerator.. your kids the magnets, constantly STUCK to you!
  days without showering because you’d rather sleep instead.
  that just when you sit down for quiet, but of course, someone needs you.

  and it’s hard to fathom a day when they won’t.
  
  I smile inside looking back.
  all those times someone would tell me just that.
  how short are the years that fill such long days.

  and I’d look through puffy eyes and fight the urge to say, “please shut up and go away!”
  but turns out. maybe they knew something after all. because IT’S TRUE!

  those days really do end.

  and I’m thinking all this. feeling it a little deeper. today. especially more, it seems..
  as Ben – my kid, of all the kids, that used to make me doubt this the most, turns THIRTEEN !!
  
  
  
  
  
  and I find myself just now, staring for a bit between those two things..
  that word THIRTEEN, and the little face in the picture.

  {long sigh} so much more to say about all this.
  about him. and teenagers. and life. and uncharted waters.
  of thankfulness and lessons learned and the ever daily cries for grace~but.
  
  the kids are on spring break this week. {yay}
  someone has some birthday money to spend.
  and we have some partying to do.
  
  so for now.
  happy 13th birthday to our Ben~
  
  and moms of young ones reading this..
  someday that will be your kid too!!!
  they’ll cut their own food and go to the bathroom all by themselves, without any help from you.

  I promise.
  
  
  

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