Completely OT - can I sob a bit?
She had her birthday last week and I took her for her annual birthday portraits. Every year is hard for me to pick just a couple of shots, because... well.. .I'm her mother, I'm baised and I think they are all cute. LOL This year was even harder. She looked so adorable in all of them and SO GROWN UP! Where did my baby go?
How did you all get through this? It literally hurts to see her getting so grown up so fast :(
BTW... I'll add her to my pictures :) I figure if I'm going to slobber about my baby, I mind as well show her to you :)
You couldn't have posted this on a more perfect day. My daughter is a senior and I just picked up her senior pictures. Omg, they are gorgeous! But at the same time I see her sexy little smile, and I see how pretty and grown up she's become and it brought a tear to my eye. She looked at me and said "your not gonna start crying now are you mom", sort of sternly so I stopped real fast.lol
I have a son that graduated last year also, so two years in a row I'm starting to wonder how they grew up without me! :) Thank goodness I still have two smaller children at home. Well I should say I still have all four at home. My oldest I don't feel will ever move out. Now my senior desided she wants to become a teacher and wants to bumm off of her mother and live at home during her college years.
It's definteily sad, lol how wonder lately I've been wanting to work with infants!ha They need to invent a pill or something that will make them smaller for a few extra years. Heck my youngest daughter is eight and I still catch my husband carrying her in his arms on occasion (she weighs 50 pounds)! Lol, I have to yell at him to put her down!ha Drives me nuts.
Guess they will always be our babies. Heck..I just went and bought my nineteen year old medicine and orange juice without him asking me and I put it in front of his face and told him to take it like if he was a little kid.lol He will always be my little boy. I swear I worry about him more now than I did three years ago!
Karen, it's the reason I probably would not have kids if I had it to do all over again. i love them so much it hurts. i worry about them so much it hurts.
For all the joy i've had, it is such an emotional burden. I remember wishing time would stand still when they were about 8 & 10...they thought I was fantastic, i loved being with them, playing and swimming and watching tv and taking them places.
Now I have grandsons who are breaking my heart with love.
sigh....
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." ~Mark Twain
Karen, kudos for loving your baby. All you other women, as well. You have to understand what a priceless gift you've given them. They know that their mom loves them with an undying and unconditional love.
WAY TO GO moms.
There's so much more to life than numbers on a scale. If you ask any child, they'll take a mom who loves them over a mom on the cover of the swimsuit edition of a magazine any day.
Ruth
