Our Children’s Growing Up Years are HERE Today
Have you ever watched those ‘growing up’ video clips of a couple, played on their wedding day?
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You know what?
I always, ALWAYS, get all teary-eyed whenever I watch such videos.
But.
It’s not quite because I feel emo and touched from seeing the couple’s photos in the clip.
It’s more because every time I watch such videos, I always imagine how those photos would one day be of my children, and I just can’t imagine how totally emo I’d feel if I were to watch those ‘growing up’ photos on THEIR wedding day.
Right now, the kids are still with us! And we can create memories everyday with them!I can already feel how my heart would ache from seeing photos of them still so little.
Heart ache from loving those growing up moments AND knowing how such moments could never be repeated ever again.
Heart ache from experiencing how time flies by so fast.
Heart ache from knowing how much I love my children, how they have grown so much through the years together with us, and how it is now time for them to move on and start their own family.
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There’s nothing, nothing, that we can do to turn back timeThe other day, as I watched such a video at a wedding reception, I leaned over to my husband (teary-eyed, of course) and whispered,
I know I’d miss the kids’ growing up years so much when they’re all grown up. But, at least I know, when I watch their growing up photos put together into a video one day, I can say to myself, ‘I was there. I was with them all throughout their growing up years!’
And you know what?
The interesting thing is, those growing up moments I’d one day see in a video clip are actually here TODAY!
Right now, the kids are still with us! And we can create memories everyday with them!
Isn’t that just a greatttt reason for us to treasure our days together, while we still can?
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Our children’s growing up years will be gone in no time.
And there’s nothing, nothing, that we can do to turn back time.
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Their growing up years are here TODAY.
Let’s not let them slip away, without us in them.
Let’s treasure their childhood and our time with them, by BEING WITH them.
While we still can.
