This weekend we did a tour of a college. The whole time I’m walking around this school and listening to the guide, I’m looking at both my girls and realizing that at some point they stopped looking like my little girls and looked like grown college students. They fit there. They looked like college kids.
They have grown up before my eyes, and yet somehow I missed the growing point between baby and college kid. Everyone warned us that time flies and one day you will look at your kids and wonder how they grew so fast. I didn’t believe them. I remember thinking when they were toddlers that they would never be out of certain stages and yet somehow, one day, a day that I have no memory of, or no “milestone date” written in their baby books, one day was the last time I lifted them up to hold. They had either gotten so big that I couldn’t lift them, or they wanted to walk on their own, but one day was the LAST DAY that I lifted my baby off the ground and held her in my arms.
So, to my many momma friends of little ones, there will come a day when you realize that you missed it. You missed the LAST DAY. The last day of lifting them up to hold or carry around. The last day you helped give them a bath. The last day you help tie a shoe. Those milestones that don’t get written in the baby book. It may be weeks or months until you realize that you missed it.
For some stages, you will be grateful for the end. For other stages, you will grieve the end. All I can tell you, from one Momma to another, who didn’t believe it herself, one day you will be walking along side your kid and think how did this happen so fast!
(Side note: the tour was amazing. It confirmed that this was where the Lord wanted our family to be.)
Cowles Farm 