I heard the saying one time, “Stop the world, I wanna get off.” I don’t know where. I could google it, but I don’t want to right now. Anyway, I feel like that, except it should be, “Slow down the world, I don’t wanna miss anything.” I have such a great life. Really, I do. I enjoy it so much. I’ve got an awesome family. We have so much fun together.
Chris is the ultimate family man. He spends all of his free time with us. He is just as up for a family trip to the zoo or the aquarium as me and the kids are. He takes us fishing with him. He changes pull-ups in the Walmart parking lot. I truly value the fact that he spends time with us. Not all men do.
I can’t get over how cool our kids are. I mean, I don’t want to just come out and say that my kids are better than yours, but I really think they are. (I won’t hold it against you if you think yours are better. We’ll still be friends.) I just adore my kids. They are so smart. And so cute. And so much fun. I mean, really. They are hillarious. For example, wouldn’t it make you laugh to be sitting there, watching Oprah, and hear, “Me naked!”. Then, you spray Diet Mt Dew out of your mouth when your two year old does a little naked dance. I mean, it’s just funny. Or when your daughter gets upset over her school’s dress code because she doesn’t want to wear a “dress coat”. They’re funny. They’re entertaining. And they’re all mine.
It just goes by so fast. Between the diaper changing, nose wiping, dinner cooking, laundry doing, and all the other miscellaneous things that you have to do…the days slip by. It seems like the last four years have sped by so fast. I’m afraid that I’m going to keep using up these days, and the next thing I know my kids will be grown. I just don’t want it to go by too fast. I don’t want to wish away their childhoods for a time when maybe they are easier and less time consuming. I want to cherish every minute.
So, slow down, World. I don’t want to miss anything.