Don't Blink

I know I haven't too long ago done a post on "It Won't Be Like This for Long"... well actually I guess it has been a while because I was still pregnant with Sophie. Anyway... the other day I heard Kenney Chesney's "Don't Blink" and it reminded me so much of "It Won't Be Like This for Long".

Lyrics:
I turned on the evening news
Saw a old man being interviewed
Turning a hundred and two today
Asked him what's the secret to life
He looked up from his old pipe
Laughed and said "All I can say is."

Don't blink
Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your "better half"
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think
So don't blink

I was glued to my tv when it looked like he looked at me and said
"Best start putting first things first."
Cause when your hourglass runs out of sand
You can't flip it over and start again
Take every breathe God gives you for what it's worth

Don't Blink
Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your "better half"
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think
So don't blink

So I've been tryin' ta slow it down
I've been tryin' ta take it in
In this here today, gone tomorrow world we're livin' in

Don't blink
Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your "better half"
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster then you think
So Don't blink

Naw, don't blink
Life Goes Faster Than You Think

***I really almost got emotional in the car listening to it. It honestly seems like just the other day Kyle and I were still in high school dating, then he moved off to Orlando, then I was graduating high school and enrolling in college, then we were engaged.... and married.... next thing I know I'm in a recliner at 1:53am doing a blog while holding my beautiful baby girl..... the same baby girl that I so selfishly cried over when I found out I was pregnant... oh how I didn't want another child right now.... Kyle and I blinked and we now have 3 kids. It all went by so fast! I can remember growing up and the days seemed to have been so much longer. Why was that? Why can't they be long as an adult too? I miss my childhood and just the innocence of it. Life was so much easier back then it seemed. As a child you have no worries. Death seems so rare to a child... as an adult it seems that I know at least one person in the obituaries each week.

The saddest part to that song to me is when he's talking about "You just might miss your babies growing like mine did".... I don't want to miss out on any part of H,K, or S's life. I often think back to when it was just Heidi. Please don't mis-understand what I'm about to say because I love Sophie and Karter more than anything.... but I miss the easiness of loving one child... and caring for one child. Even if I only have one to care for today.... while my other two are somewhere else, the other two are ALWAYS in my head.... I can't EVER get them out of it. Kyle and I were talking about that the other day.... how our minds seem to always stay so busy now with three kids. It's so hard for me to explain. God is so amazing in how he blesses us parents in being able to love each child the same.... not even one hair difference in the love.

I love my life and my little family so much more than words can even begin to describe.... and I just hope I help us to make thousands of memories in this lifetime before we "blink".