Time keeps on ticking...

This morning I read a blog post from a mom who just started her journey with three kids.  She was cheery and positive in her newborn baby glow.  She is also in that "this is my last baby" glow.  My heart went out to her.  I remember how I felt those first six months of Molly's life.  I remember thinking that three kids really wasn't THAT bad.  Then she started moving...

Tonight I head to Molly's last kindergarten conference...MY last kindergarten conference.  I literally want to  hold onto the clock and try to get the time to quit moving forward.  I know something that mom doesn't know...someday is ends.  Someday you don't have little ones who need you for everything.  Someday you don't have a little one who says pa-que-ter, instead of computer.  Someday you don't stop in the middle of a parking lot to look at a rock.  Someday you don't need to spell "from" or "love" anymore.  Someday you won't need to read the work from school phonetically.  Someday you won't know every thought they have the moment they have them.  Someday your car rides really will be quiet.  Someday you won't know the PBS schedule by heart.  Someday you won't remember the words to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse song or how many times Dora will blink before she answers.  Someday...they will grow up...

After I read her blog, I started cleaning up Molly's homework from yesterday.  I found this:

A little tear fell down my cheek as I realized I really will miss stick figures and kindergarten spelling.  I will miss backward J and backward 3.  I will miss reading picture books that rhyme and jokes that begin with knock-knock.  But Molly assures me that even though she is growing up, she will love me forever.  I might miss kindergarten, but will settle for being loved forever.

Translation:  

A fact about Penguins by Molly Grace Jensen

That they are endangered animals and the penguins can't fly.