I have stopped for what feels like a minute. To take stock, to focus to do all of the required and cliche elements to slowing down and what I can tell you, they are not for me. Slowing down requires you to actually stop, and I feel like I physically cannot do it, nor does time allow it. My children have not slowed down with their exploits, nor has time actually slowed down for me to appreciate things, so I speed along with it. Grayson is losing all of his teeth... he has caught up to Sterling in that regard and goodness, that child is 8 going on 20. He wants to be big so fast that it is alarm at what he is attempting to learn and accomplish, and completely by himself. He is staunchly independent, like his parents, and all the while they grow and learn at an unfathomable rate. I don't know who wrote it but I have heard this quote go around that "time is a thief" and when I was younger I didn't really fathom that, I sure do now. My little humans are not...
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