Blink of an Eye

Its all happening in a blink of an eye....life....one moment we are waiting patiently (well not really) for our son to be born....then "BAM" he's 6....same goes for our daughter...shes's 3....just last year I was worrying about Breyden starting kindergarten and how he would handle...hell how I would handle it....and now its April and he's talking about how he's almost a first grade....wait what?!  This past school year has flown by....I barely know what day of the week it is anymore...I only know it by what we are doing, or hell what workout I am doing that day....its like a repetitive (never ending) cycle....like the instructions on a shampoo bottle "rinse, wash, repeat"....thats where we are!....one moment I am changing diapers...then suddenly I have no one in diapers (not that I am complaining about that....I have absolutely no desire or want to ever go back to that).....or a recent event....I was the one who reads the kids books....but for the past month or so Breyden has been bringing home books he can read from school....so after the first couple...I was wondering if he just memorized the story...so I decided to try a library book, a handout he gets from school, and/or a book from home...and sure enough he can read with help....I knew it would happen, but really wasn't ready for that yet....he hasn't even lost his first tooth yet!  Or Sydney talking to me like she is an adult not just a sassy 3 year old...her knew favorite phrase is "you hurt my feelings mom"....where the hell did she get that...and the fact that she using it in the perfect context is even scarier....even though I feel like we are just going through the motions of life, family, parenting, homework, dance, dinner, lunch, breakfast, karate, and so on (and alot of it is as a single parent during the week since Andrew is working extremely long hours and is barely home to say hello to me let alone the kids)...its exhausting...by weeks end I am done, the kids are done, Andrew is done....but its the small moments where I am reminded its all happening around us....we are moving forward in life....kids are learning new things all the time...a lot of the things they are learning everyday are not huge...but then it happens...your kids is reading you a book....and you finally take a minute to really look at him and wonder where did it go!

Well I will tell ya...it went by in a blink of an eye!

Elisa