I know that we as parents hear it all of the time! “Don’t blink!” From the time that we leave the hospital with our new baby, everyone warns you how fast the time will go!
5 years ago, I was setting up our son’s nursery in our first home when we lived in MA! Every little detail was planned out, the room was decorated immaculately. His crib was ready for him, his clothes hanging in the closet and his diaper storage filled to the top. We were ready!
What we weren’t ready for was how fast it would all go! He will be 5 in a few weeks and all we did was blink. Were there times when it felt like time moved slowly, yes!! But he grew so fast. As the saying goes, the days are long but the years are short.
So with our baby growing up, we had to face the inevitable and convert his room to a “big boy room”!! But before we could start that emotional journey, I wanted to freeze the room that has watched him grow from a 1 year old in a crib to a toddler learning to sleep on his own without railings keeping him contained. The “Goodnight Moon” book that we read to him every night! The binding worn and the pages hanging on by a thread. His going home outfit from the hospital and the ID tag that said forever more he was ours!
I will be sharing his new big boy room and all it’s details soon, but for now can we just reflect on how fast it goes.
DON’T BLINK MAMA!!
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