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Overnight it seems, I find myself coming home to a clubhouse
of toddlers. There are little communities of Lego blocks underfoot. Long outgrown shoes look out like sentinels on the
stairs. Kiddie cutlery
vies for space on our table. Stuffed toys mutate, temper tantrums flare, little hands make a frantic
grab for me.
Yes, time does fly. My boys are about to depart the town of
babyhood. This fact hits me hard one lazy afternoon as I was looking at their
pictures. Their limbs are longer, their features more defined, their individual characters are forming. Suddenly, I realize that one day, they will have
other preoccupations that will not involve me, there will be rooms with locked
doors, there will be dozens of pimple-faced friends, there might be late-night whispered
phone calls, and there is the possibility of, oh my gosh… girlfriends.
I have no plans to counter the inevitable. My only plan is, this year, I will have more piggyback rides with my two boys. I better get in shape.
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Hi Linnor. And I see you have 3 boys! Wow.
Posted by: melissa | 15 February 2006 at 09:02 PM
I could relate to this entry... Like you, I have boys as well.
Posted by: Linnor | 15 February 2006 at 04:57 PM
Fions, wow nice to see you here, miga! My boys are growing up sooooo fast. Jeremy has just started nursery school (I've yet to blog about that!), how time flies! I think I'll be super jealous of the first girl they will hold hands with. Aw.
Posted by: melissa | 23 January 2006 at 11:16 AM
LOL Kaydee!!!
You got me! I sometimes write a post but then have no time to upload it, so it sits in my PC for a few days. That's why when I do have the time to upload, I backdate posts just to get my history right. It's an obssessive thing, and you caught me. :)
Posted by: melissa | 23 January 2006 at 11:13 AM
weird: i check your site almost daily so why can i read your jan. 11 post on jan. 22 for the first time?
something wrong with my browser? :-/
happy sunday!
Posted by: kaydee | 22 January 2006 at 05:02 PM
Hi Mel. Happy new year. I like the pic here, it looks like an old, classic sepia photo. I keep my nephews company so I get to step on a lot of toys. I'm the one who apologizes to them hehe. We have to enjoy their company while they are still young. For now, you can be seen holding their hands in public but in a few years they will be holding someone else's hand. Yun na!
Posted by: fionski | 20 January 2006 at 07:02 AM