Time is running out

Time is running out. Have you done everything that you wanted to accomplish during these 3 months of having your beautiful, rambunctious, and silly littles at home with you? 

Are you happy with the amount of time you got with them? Are you all of a sudden feeling terrible that you did not do as much as you wanted to do with them? 

Are you thinking what a terrible person you are for not going to the park more, hitting the swimming pool a few more times, taking them to events around the area, or just feeling that sense of dread as the school year is coming to a start? Me TOO!!!! 

I know we have done so many fun things this summer, but I am feeling the tug of regret and guilt that this was the last summer before both kids are in school. I feel that I want to pause time, or just go back to when they were younger. Start this process over again. Would I do anything different? 

I know with our daughter in 1st grade and our son in PreK this year that the time will only go faster and the year will be over in a blink of an eye. 

I did not prioritize learning this summer like I wanted too. Sure we did some, but not as much as I would have liked to do. What things are you feeling you wanted to do more of?

 I don’t know about you- but this Mama is seriously bumming. 

As parents we are only the beginning of our children’s stories. Those core memories that they will keep for all their lives.  

So if you have put off those fun things you wanted to do this summer with your kids, stop what you are doing right now and put them in your calendar and do it!!! (Even if you dont read all this post!! LOL) 

 Do those things now while they are still young, do those things for not only your children but for your memories as a parent. We are the example for our children, and I dont know about you but I pray that someday when my beautiful children are grown and have a family, that they prioritize these small adventures with each other, that they take time to let their children be children. That they teach them about nature and God, and that they will forever have amazing memories to share of when they were young. 

So even though these things that I pray for are so far away, I am putting the seeds down for them to grow. I am spending as much time as I can with my littles to show them how to raise littles of their own someday. 

So how do we move forward when the children are all in school? Is this a new beautiful chapter of our lives as not only mothers, but as ourselves? What will that look and feel like? 

In being a mother of small children/ babies you lose yourself a bit or at least I did. Your schedule is filled with pretty much just keeping those tiny little humans alive and happy, picking up after them, and trying to get enough sleep so that you could do it all again the next day. The person I was before children is still part of the person I am today, but they are not the same. I have learned so much from my children growing up. I have learned what to prioritize in my life. I have learned that life is so short and we need to focus on what truly matters now, or time will pass us by and we will live with regret. 

“To raise a child, who is comfortable enough to leave you, means you’ve done your job. They are not ours to keep, but to teach how to soar on their own.” – author unknown

Yes, yes, yes to this quote! In raising our children I have wanted to reverse time so I can keep them tiny and with me, but this is not a parents duty. Our job is to raise kind, loving, healthy, strong, and steadfast children. We are to teach them what is right and wrong. We are to make sure they will be good people when they leave us. 

A mothers or fathers heart does not want to believe that their child is growing up so fast and we can not make it stop. Our hearts want to treasure all those moments of their lives. Our brains know that we can not possibly be there for everything in our childs lives, nor can we make them stop growing. Our eyes deceive us at times and we see our babies in those mature faces, and wonder where the time has gone, did we go into a coma and not know it? Lol.

When I wrap my children in my arms I feel all the love and it reminds me that yes they are getting big, but all that we have done in their lives so far has made them this amazing little person that we get the privilege to watch grow up. 

In Jeremiah 29:11 it states – For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. 

Only the Lord knows what’s next for your child. Raise them with the know how to live a beautiful and kind life. As for parents that are bumming like me because the time goes so fast, remember your doing an amazing job of raising those kids, you are giving them beautiful memories to hold dear, and now that they are going back to school you can work on being you and not only a mother. Find something truly wonderful about yourself and embrace it.

Summer is running out!!! Do those things that you want your children to remember today!!! Don’t wait any longer. Prioritize those little things, because to you they are little but to your children those are the things they will always remember! 

Then when they start school, find that thing you love to do and embrace it.

You got this Mama!!!

-Kristy