Guess Who...This is one of my favorite photo's of all time.
My handsome boy and my little cupie doll.
Those were the good ol' days!
Do I sound like an old lady? My grandma always said that to me when we were little, heck, my mom even said it to me. Life was really good back in those days when I was just a mother of two. Life is good now, don't get me wrong. I love my life and all that comes with it. Looking back though, I just didn't appreciate at the time how good it was. Two beautiful little kids, great husband, living in a great neighborhood. We had it all. Still do, just A LOT more of it.
I miss those days when parenting was all about potty training and getting your little kids to not be picky eaters or just getting your three year old to sleep through the night. Piece of cake I tell ya! We still are in that stage of parenting a little bit, thanks to our two caboose train we have here in the Schmalz house. I am so grateful for those cabooses, they are keeping us young. And I hate to make it sound like those were the good old days, but it was. I feel like I have finally (after five kids) arrived as a parent and guess what, it's hard! And I know that it is going to get harder! Ahhhhh! Not sure now if I am very good at it at all sometimes. Second guessing myself all the time these days. And these things are big things, things that really matter. Kids will get potty trained eventually, they always do. I have yet to meet a fifteen year old that still wears diapers!
I just have to hope and pray, and pray and hope, every single day that I am doing the best I can as a mother. It's a big job this parenting thing.
I also just have to come to terms with the fact that my cute little kids are growing up. I hate that! I wish I could just keep them all small forever. It is so hard to let them grow up and let them go off and make their own decisions and make their own mistakes. I never thought in a million years when they were three years old that one day I would feel like this and that it would be so hard.
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That is the cutest picture ever! I already feel like it's going by too fast and my kids are only 2 and 3! You are such a great mom, you will do as well or better in this stage as you did with your little ones. You are a great example to the rest of us who wonder just how you do it all!
Oh Stacy,
Thanks for Flashback Friday....WOW! I just want you to know from the outside looking in. YOU are a wonderful Mother!(I am not just saying that because I am your favorite sister..wink wink). YOU are amazing and your hard work and dedication as a Mom and Wife show brightly in your family. They are happy, well adjusted, kind little people. And as much fun as they have with their Auntie Kim, the first person they want to get HOME to and tell their adventures to is MOM. YOU are home to them, you are safety and security and YOU are the one who has helped mold them to be soooo AMAZING! You are doing a splendid job on this road of parenthood! I love you sister! Kimmie
That's one of my favorite pictures I've ever seen and they're not even my kids! What you are experiencing now is what I keep telling myself I'll be thinking one day when my kids are older and I want them to be my sweet babies again, as exhausting as this stage is right now.
It's the eyes. What a darling picture. Do you think they allow you to dress them up like that today? Those WERE the good old days. Kylie sure has had a ton of fun hanging our for the past two days with Sophie all to herself. We need to plan a girl's night out. P.S. You're the bomb on the bike decorating. Kylie, trying to be gracious, kept telling me that her bike-the one I was helping her with) looked really good. Yea right! I obviously didn't get in THAT line in heaven when they were passing out talents. You're AWESOME!
Precious picture of those two!
Just makes me smile.
and yes, I'm feeling you. It gets harder for sure. And the doubt rushes in and makes you feel so shaky!
I have had to have faith in myself as well as a loving Heavenly Father who has blessed his children...especially mothers...with all that is needed to raise children that will return to Him.
But it doesn't mean there won't be hard things to go through. Stuff that will half kill you!
The thing I admire most about you is your commitment to Alex and let me tell you from experience. THAT will be the most important thing when you are going through those hard things.
I know you love your children, it beams from you every single moment.
They are so lucky to have you.
Have fun! and YES! enjoy them. I know you do.
Its hard not having them stay little, even little Kessler, doesn't have the newborn cry anymore and I miss it....
That is a darling picture, it looks just like them still. I 'totally' :-) understand what you are saying. I wouldn't change anything, but I look back and remember when it was just the two (not to put two lightly)and miss those days when they were so young. It was hard then it seemed, and I kept thinking, 'it will be so much easier when my kids are older.' Ha! yeah, right.
You are a WONDERFUL mom, you are probably up cleaning or making something for your kids when I am sitting here on the computer. Love ya!
Oh...look how cute they are! You should try to do a memory photo and friday flash the two of them back this week! See if you can recreate the moment...I wonder what Gavin would really do if he thought you were completely serious and emotional about the idea? Try it! You are an amazing woman! I love to watch you with your kids! You are so interested in everything they are telling you! I'm sure that they appreciate your sincerity! I got the best pics of Gray this weekend...I'll try to post them on my blog tonight and you can cut and paste or I can email them to you
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