The Miss Elaine-ous Life

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Having Visions of that Graphic of a Clock with Wings (in other words, Time Flies…)

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Time is a funny thing.

I remember when I ran through the dorm trying to get my laundry done and when I passed by the t.v. room a TON of people were in there watching some show called “Friends.”

After I loaded the dryer with my acid wash jeans (oh kidding, I NEVER wore those…) I came back and sat and watched it and laughed my butt off. And now, that same show has been off the air for several years (btw, I still miss it…)

I have a photograph of my parents that sits on the shelf I pass by every time I enter the kitchen. It was taken in 1992 on a trip to Colorado, the LAST vacation I took with them, just my parents and I. I love their smiles and the background.

But they are older now. And every time I look at that photo, I see it. I see how time has marched on.

I see it when I look at my children.

Even the baby. But especially The B Man.

I bought new pajamas for him the other day and was just sure the pants would be too long. They were not.

I remember the first moment I held him, my first baby.

They didn’t give him to me right away after I birthed him. I came to find out he wasn’t breathing. A lot was going on during his delivery (A LOT, with us both.) and it didn’t even register that I hadn’t heard him cry.

While everyone was fussing over him and my doctor was stitching me up, and Tim was over there making sure our baby was okay, I just kept saying to myself, “Why haven’t they given him to me, why, why, why?”

It was several minutes later that I finally held him and breathed him in and that time, THAT time right there…. seemed like an eternity.

Since then it’s been 5 and half years of all kinds of new experiences because he’s my first at everything, from being born into my life and making me a mother, to the first to have homework.

Time has marched so fast that my first baby has homework now.

Tonight I looked into his blue eyes (he got those from his Daddy) as he came over to kiss his baby sister, who I was holding, and I came to a realization.

Time will continue on, there’s no stopping it. And before I know it, Baby K will NOT be a baby anymore either. I will have memories of when I had her too and I heard “here’s your baby girl” and I cried because she was perfect and healthy and ours for the loving and raising.

I will blink and she will be doing her laundry, at the dorm.

But, God willing, I will always have these memories, good, bad and all the in between. Memories of my children that carry on as they grow and change.

And just to remind myself, my three babies on their BIRTHdays. Three days in the time capsule of my mind that I will NEVER forget, no matter how fast time flies…

The B Man

Little G

Baby K

elaine

Comments

  3. aww SO precious! 🙂 B Man and Baby K look SO much alike. I love seeing siblings side by side. I can’t wait till my Chloe is here, so I can see how much she looks like her brothers! 🙂

  4. these are such amazing years, time with our babies goes way too fast…nice to stop and reflect..
    as they age so do we , and that scares me!!

  6. This was really beautiful. I to remember each birth of my children like it was yesterday and now I look at them and its like that was a life time ago. Time does march on but thank goodness for memories and photos.

  7. Oh, you’ve got a pregnant woman in tears here.

    It’s amazing how quickly time passes once you have children. Those first moments of life with them are like flashes in a pan, but we hold on to them forever.

    They are all just darling.

  12. Having children sure does make you realise how quickly time marches on.

    How lovely to see photos of your three precious babies on their BIRTH days.

  13. It seems like I blinked and we are nearly through Giggles’ freshman year!

    I can’t believe how much they all look alike in their newborn shots!

  14. I KNOW!
    I was just thinking about this all yesterday. I think having a baby when there are older children in the house really brings it to the forefront of my mind. It really shows just how fast time goes.
    I went through my blog and was reading a bunch of my old posts and was amazed at how much the boys have grown and how fast it all went.
    It makes me completely paranoid and I want to remember every little moment now.

    Beautiful post! 🙂

  17. This is so wonderful (this post..these thoughts) I can totally relate. Those birthdays are precious days! Time does fly..that’s why we have to pull our selves out of the trenches of motherhood and enjoy each day! ahhhhh.

  18. Time does go way too quickly with our kiddos. We were just saying the other day that we don’t even remember Izzy being as small as Natalie is now.

    And, boy do G and K look a ton alike!

  21. This was a beautiful post Elaine, so well thought out and it simply made me feel exactly what you were thinking. I loved it.

    And seriously. Your babies are like triplets!!! I could not tell the difference at all if you hadn’t labelled them 🙂 You and Tim make beautiful babies!