I'm gonna miss this...

I am trying to enjoy the little moments here in life. And trying to blog about them...so I will remember. I am not perfect, nor do I expect myself to be, but I am here for these to darling kids of mine. There are lots of things I need to work on. I need to be more organized, get to the gym, eat healthier, cook healthier, and many more...but one thing I am good at is that I can look past the piles of papers or the drawers that so desperately need to be sorted through...and I can take the kids to the beach...because it is February...and it is 80 degrees...and we live near the beach...and well...I can. I can do that easily. Sometimes too easily...but I'm gonna miss this!

Soon enough I know that our time will be more filled. Filled with MORE. More soccer practices. More homework. More ballet. More golf. More running around. More stuff.

I know that soon enough I will long for the days when we were less busy and wonder why I didn't do more. I'm gonna miss this!

I'm gonna miss that Cassidy wants to read Pinkalicious again...even though we have read it 100 times and she knows all the words.

I'm gonna miss all of the questions that Kaden has for me...about...well...just about anything.... ( I thought it was a 3 year old stage...but luckily he keeps on asking why)!

I'm gonna miss taking the kids to the playground... 'cause one day soon enough they'll want to go by themselves. They won't even want me there.

I'm gonna miss that they want to cuddle. This morning...Kaden tip- toed into our room...said "good morning...can I get in and have a cuddle?" Of course I let him in! I know that time will pass soon enough and he will be a teenager and may not want to cuddle. I'm gonna miss this!

Cassidy my little love bug...has bouts with mommyitis...at least that's what we call it around here. Her bedtime habits include waking up several times to see where mommy is...and crying wondering why mommy is no longer lying next to her. Well, I am not sure that I am going to miss this...but I bet I will. I bet there is something about her wanting me and needing me. Even though it is pretty tiring...and would be a whole lot easier to sleep train her and deal with the crying for a few nights...I bet...I'm gonna miss this!

Now...I don't know many parents who LOVE cleaning up after the kids make forts with every blanket, pillow, and sheet in the house. But next time they want to build a fort, I will imagine that those sheets will one day instead be on their beds at college. I will miss those sheets covering the couch and tucked into the backs of chairs. I will wish the kids were home so that I could climb under the fort and read them a story. I'm gonna miss this!

It seems as if so much of my time is spent in "mini"...our little nickname for our Toyota Sienna Minivan. Already back and forth from preschool to kindergarten. Mini gets us where we need to go...and in style too(hee hee). I am so thankful to have mini...but more thankful for all the good times we have in the van. Now... do I really want to listen to JTTA music, Disney soundtracks, and favorite preschool songs...not really. But as I listen to the voices singing along so innocently and sweetly in the back (and at the top of their lungs at times)...I realize that I'm gonna miss this! One day not too far in the future...they will be TOO cool for...singing aloud in the car...and will have their IPOD's on...listening to god knows what. So, next time they ask to listen to their music...I will turn it on and up...because, I'm gonna miss this!

"Hey Mom...want to play Wii?" (ummm...no...not actually)...but I know that one day they will be stuck up in their rooms working on some high school history project and they won't have time for a game. And I will wish(and they will wish)that they could play a game of memory...go fish...and Wii, so yes...I want to play Wii, 'cause I'm gonna miss this!

I'm gonna miss it all one day...so to that pile of laundry waiting to be folded...the dishes that need to be unloaded...and to the closets that are begging to be organized...I'll see you a little bit later...I've got a fort to build!

What are you going to miss?