How can you get time to stand still? If anyone has the answer to that question, please let me know. Growing up, I was always looking into the future, I want to become this…, I want to have this…, I just want to be older!! A frequent phrase I remember hearing from my mom was, “Don’t wish your life away.” I have tried my best to take advantage of what life has to offer and make the most of my life. I was happily cruising along until I became a mother. Now, I wish time could just stand still. I watch my kids grow and change. They are still really young, so literally every day, some new development occurs. My two year old will learn a new word. My baby will learn to crawl or pick things up with his hands. I love it! I love watching them and cannot even express the pride I experience as a parent. And then there are those nights, you know the ones after you have tucked them in and they have fallen asleep and you just watch them sleep, and my heart just breaks. They will never be like this again. My two year old will never be that little newborn that we brought home from the hospital. My baby, who loves to stare at me and who will reach up with his little hands to grab my face, will quickly grow out of that phase and I will never have that again. I seriously wonder how mothers who lived before this great digital age of video and yes, the thousands of pictures did it. How did they hold on to their memories? How did they keep those tender memories so vivid in their minds? How do any of us handle the reality that our kids will grow and change and never remain our little bundles? Yet, I know that time does win and my kids will grow. And what I have found that gives me comfort (because I have not yet figured out how to make time stop) is that my hope for them is that one day they will grow, have a family of their own and experience this same joy. Each time after my boys were born and my mom stayed with me to help out, I asked her, “Does it make you sad that I grew up?” And her response is always, “No, because I know how much you enjoy life now and that means all the world to me as a mother”.