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I'm gonna miss this...


Somedays, when I'm faced with this:


I wonder when it will get easier. I wonder when my days won't be filled with needs, demands, requests and chaos.


And then I realize...


I realize it'll all be gone too soon.


And I can wait forever to have "too soon" arrive.

"Tho the days seem long,
The years go fast."

-Author Unknown


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  1. I get it! I SO get it. I try to remind myself of this fact every day. Some days are better than others, but it's so true!
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  2. I have days like that too. Especially lately when the youngest thinks it's funny to flush random things down the toilet. But I know that in a few years she won't be so little & I will really miss these days.

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  3. I LOVE that last picture! Awesome shot!!
    And I agree...hold onto and cherish this time you have...because it won't be long before this time does pass.

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  4. This is definitely something I try to remind myself of! Thanks for this :)

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  5. So true! Life is short and even the rough days are great ones!

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  6. OK. This is just the post I NEEDED to read today. Thank you! I am often so frustrated and at my wits end with my toddler. But you are right. I will miss it. It goes too fast.

    Thank you!

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  7. Thanks for the reminder...it is so true.

    Have you heard the Dariu Rucker song "It Won't Be Like This For Long" yet? It makes me cry every.single.time.

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  8. p.s. here's a link to the video...

    http://www.cmt.com/videos/darius-rucker/336930/it-wont-be-like-this-for-long.jhtml

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  9. you are so right. every day is so precious. i really wish i was a WAHM so i could enjoy each moment, or at least more moments than i do now.

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  10. Such a sweet post! I love the photos that go with it.

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  11. I think these thoughts almost every day. And I love that quote at the end. Couldn't be more true than that.

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  12. Have you seen this video/heard this song:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_lUnFjXg8
    It came out right about the time my DS decided he wanted to SCREAM his infant head off all day long. I thought I really had made a poor decision in having children... then I watched this video and bawled my eyes out and hugged on my son. It's definitely a good thing to keep perspective as a parent. I am confident this is the only reason each and every one of us is still alive today-- otherwise our parents might have killed us too :)

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  13. oh, haha, I just realized someone else posted a link to the video. oh well... great minds think alike!

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  14. So very true, I have to keep reminding myself of that lately. I know there will come a time when I will actually miss this chaos even though some days it is enough to make me scream. I just have to take a deep breath (sometimes go in a completely different room and take a couple of deep breaths) and then remind myself that all too soon my babies will be grown and won't come to me quite as much as they do now. Then I scoop them up and love on them and try to hang on to my sanity til bedtime :)

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  15. Such a timely post...my boys went to camp together. For the first time they left me behind. With my husband at work, my house felt so empty. I can't wait for them to come home :)

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  16. Very true. She's such a doll.

    I'm now singing "You're gonna miss this, you're gonna want this back, you're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast...."

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  17. I know exactly how you feel. Wonderful pictures!

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  18. I totally hear ya! Some days I just want my boys to be bigger so that I can get a break...but then I realize I'm gonna miss these days sooooo much. Plus I'll be really old ;)

    Great pictures. Do you use Photoshop? I just bought it and I'm sooooo confused!

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  19. Hey I've seen those faces in my house recently. My soon to be 4 year old is very practiced. Oh but just you wait. Oh the faces of a teenager...it will drive you mad certain days.

    So eat up these sweet little faces, the cute turn of the face, the hip kicked out. Soon it will be gone

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