They Grow Up So Fast
Life is short. If you blink, you might miss it. The earth has existed for millions of years, but we will only be here for less than a century. Sometimes I look at my children and think about how the time that my partner and I have with them as children is finite. Time seems to be passing by like a flash of lightning; it seems like they were babies and then I blinked and then were toddlers and then I blinked again and they were able to make their own decisions and understand conversations that once upon a time were in secret code that they could in no way decipher. I adore their infinite cuteness that I cannot get enough of. I marvel at how sweet their tiny little faces are and hope that I will always see them this way. Sometimes I feel totally weird thinking about how some people do not have children, never having the chance to nurture tiny little people that look and act like them. I realize that reproduction is not everyone's goal, and I also realize that some people are i