Growing older in child years

June 17, 2008 by chad.

Have you ever noticed that you don’t feel any older as the years go by, but when you have children the age is apparent? My son turned 4 this last week. For 4 years we have not been DINKS(Double Income, No Kids). When the kids were not in our life the years could go by without a passing thought. Now ever year that goes by you think of the time spend before them as a distant memory. The time will come again in at least 16 years when our daughter who is now 2 will be going off to college. The house will be devoid of the constant growing reminder that we are aging. Only sporadicly will we be reminded of the fact that our spawn is aging as well….the phone calls about significant others, of accomplishments and of defeats. We will look upon their events as the events we once experienced when we were their age. I suppose the only thing that is constant is change and the march of time. I’m not afraid, just conscious of its movement.

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