When They Grow Up in a Second

Do you know those times when you look at your child and it’s like somehow they change into a grown-up version of themselves in an instant before your eyes? That.   

From my vantage point on the sand on a lazy Saturday afternoon, I watched my son march up to me with purpose.  I gasped internally as he came closer because in those seconds, I got a glimpse the man he will become one day.  My son is my youngest child and so there’s a sad-happy sweetness for me as he matures: his achievements and growth so often mean shutting a door on a part of my life.

But then, only moments later, my little boy was there again, flying his stick plane in the air with abandon. I delighted in it.

You have to treasure all of it as it happens…in the ebbs and flows.