I'm really behind on everything, including the closet, right now but felt the need to stop and take a moment to tell you all that I am kind of freaking out about Big Kid turning 6 on Saturday.
How have I been a mom for 6 years already? Also, if he's only legally mine for 18 years--I'm already through a third of it. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it makes me want to cry.
I want him to stay 5 forever.
Aw, I get the same way when I think about my siblings. Not my kids, but I did pretty much raise them and it blows my mind to realize that the youngest is the same age now as I was when I was babysitting them.
ReplyDeleteI get the feeling, though, that BK is going to be your baby forever in his kind little heart. Then, years and years from now, you can have little mini-Big Kids. And you can RETURN them when they overflow the toilet. :)
I wonder if that feeling intensifies with age? The more grown up they get the more we want to cry.
ReplyDeleteI totally feel your pain!
ReplyDeleteThe Boy turned 6 in June and is starting Kindergarden in 2 weeks. I'm having panic attacks already! He's also decided that he needs to go school clothes shopping at the mall. Yeah, not gonna happen on my budget!
The Monster turns 6 on Sunday. So about the time you were having BK I was just starting my 27 hours of labor.
ReplyDeleteFun stuff.
I am right there with you.
ReplyDeleteBubba turns 3 at the end of the month and I have a panic attack at the thought of him starting preschool or hell, just walking up the steps all by himself.
My middle son turns 9 Saturday--Yay for 8/8! (He also weighed 8lb8oz...)
ReplyDeleteTheir ages haven't really done a number on me yet, but maybe that's because I began the very. last. year. of my own 30s this year and that is scary.
Regardless of their ages, there are still days I think, "What are these half-grown people doing in my house and why the HELL are they calling me mom?!"
I know- P will be 6 next Thursday and I am super-freaked out about it. Plus, as he is getting older so am I, and I am super-freaked out that I'll be in my "late 30s" later this year. Damn 36!
ReplyDeleteI struggle with my oldest child's birthdays the most. It's both the fact that HE is growing up, and that I am, too. Doesn't feel like that long ago that I went to the hospital, a bundle of nerves, having no idea what to expect with this whole labor thing. Then, suddenly, I was a mom. When I brought him home, I remember wondering why they actually let me take him. I felt odd, getting in the car and just driving home with this little, helpless, amazing thing.
ReplyDeleteI still can't believe that I am a mom.
Mine will be six in Sept, and I'm already having anxiety. TIME FLIES!
ReplyDeleteAhhhh...My son is turning 6 at the end of the month and I just can't believe how big he is! They really do grow up so fast.
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