Okay, I think I've used this picture before, but I took and I love it, lol.
Anyway, this picture freeze a moment in time that will stay this way forever because it's a picture right before a major change: sunset. Every day, we watch this massive change as the earth keeps turning and the day turns to night.
Right now, I wish I could freeze my kids and stay with them where they are, but that's not the way life works. No, the earth keeps turning. My kids, other people's kids keep growing, they in turn have kids that won't stop growing either. And so, life keeps turning and the earth keeps turning. This is good, but at the same time, painful from the pains of childbirth to the aching loss of watching someone pass away. All of that change is happening in lives all over this planet of ours all the time. For me, I'm just feeling the growing pains of the end of another school year and the joy of a summer that will be gone too soon when I will have my oldest headed off to Middle School, just like a bunch of other moms.
It's a good thing, its the right thing, but right this moment, I wish I could freeze them, hold them still and just for a little bit get the world to stop turning. Life doesn't work like that, so instead, I've taken a million pictures and shed even more tears. I'm so proud of my kids and love them so hard watching them grow up hurts sometimes.