With a sky like this I shouldn't be upset that tomorrow is a work day, but I am, I can't help it. I enjoyed spending time with my kids, they are awesome! Playing dance dance and exploring the new kindle fires, eating cookies, hanging with friends, watching corny movies! It has to come to an end tonight and I am NOT ready to let it go.

My kids are getting older and I know it is just a matter of another year or so before my "little" one will not believe in Santa, things will definitely change then. On one hand it'll be a bit easier, I will be able to stash presents under the tree before the morning of Christmas, instead of staying up until 3 AM to make CERTAIN she is asleep, but on the other hand I'll be sad to see her move into another phase of her life. The innocence of childhood is slowly disappearing, I want to hold on to it for as long as I can. Having one daughter in college makes me realize just short our time with our children is! Just a blink of an eye! I want to scream at the new moms that are fretting another night without enough sleep, another day of a teething baby "enjoy it, savor it", but I know they too will one day stand at the threshold of their children's adulthood and shake their heads at the time that just ran through their fingers.

I try so hard to enjoy all the moments, try so hard to NOT let routine take the moments from me. I fail often, but succeed as well and it is those moments of success, when I know I will never forget how much these kids shaped me, how much happiness they brought into my life. I am a better person for having them, they allowed me to feel love completely. I hope one day I can stand back, when they have kids and look over their shoulders and remind them to SLOW down, to watch and enjoy, because all too soon it is gone.

So as I prepare for another day at work, I also know that at the end of the day I still come home to them and that makes me happy.