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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, I feel this way sometimes. I also sometimes think about what my kids will be like as teens or adults and get excited and want to fast forward to see what it's like.

Did you ever listen to that podcast The Longest Shortest Time, about parenting? It really captures this feeling about parenting, where the years just whip by but the days sometimes feel so long (sometimes in bad ways, sometimes in good ways).

I try to just embrace it all. Even that feeling of loss and like it's all going by too fast and it's not all how I want it to be. I think that's just life. I remember when I was a teenager, my Spanish teacher said something like this in class one day, about how as you get older the years start whipping by and then one day you wake up and you realize A DECADE has whipped by. At the time I thought it was so sad but now that I'm her age, I realize it's also sweet and poignant, because it makes you realize how precious every minute is.

Like in a couple minutes, I'm going to go peak in on my kids before I go to bed. And just thinking about this right now will remind me to give them a good long look, maybe linger over breakfast tomorrow, plan something great to do this weekend and make some memories. I know it's whipping by and I only have so much time, so it reminds me to really make it count. That's a gift.[/quote]

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