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Can’t I Go Back For Just One Day?

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My small people are no longer quite so small and on days like this I feel a little melancholy when I reminisce on their ’baby’ days. Parenthood with babies whether it be first, second or third time round is blooming hard work. You’re tired, yearning for that little nap and to not be woken too many times in the night. It’s hard!

So many people have said during those very days ”make the most of it they grow up so quickly” and yes that’s so true even though at the time it feels like those days would last forever. They don’t.

Fast forward a

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fair few years and my days now are a mix of ferrying various children to different clubs; dance, guitar, cricket, football and never ending social events. Discussions on which band is better, who is England’s best left back and which YouTuber has the most followers now fill our dinner table on an evening. Little quarrels over untidy bedrooms, who has used someone else’s property and who didn’t flush the toilet echo around the house. The concerns of making sure they don’t bump their heads when they start walking have been replaced with worrying about
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their education and teaching them to keep themselves safe when they’re not with you or online.

They are all becoming individuals with their own unique life ahead of them and I’m proud as punch. But these are the things I miss from the baby days:-

1. I miss having just the time and quiet to sit with them asleep on my chest, just staring at their little faces and breathing in that lovely baby smell (albeit of congealed milk and baby sick).

2. I miss the little milestone moments; the first time they smiled, then spending ages trying to get them

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to do it again. The first proud rolling over and the first little pearly white tooth. The first time you walk in the nursery and they’re proudly standing up in their cot.

3. I miss buying little outfits; teenagers don’t want your input on fashion, just your cash and buying football kits for the boys just isn’t quite as fun.

4. I miss the first garbled words and the funny way they’d pronounce certain people’s names.

5. I just miss those little round faces which have now evolved into much bigger versions. These bigger versions make me laugh

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so much these days and we have so much fun now they’re grown up more but I’d love to have just one day with them as they were again.

On a day like today when I’m reminiscing, I have to remind myself that all those little moments are still within them. They don’t remember them but me and Daddy do. Those little people may have grown on the outside but they’re still those toothless little dribblers to us.

So, if you do happen to be having one of those ’baby days’ today with your little one, as much of a cliche as it is, take it in, etch every

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memory in your head because they truly do grow up so very fast.
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- 12 Oct 16

My small people are no longer quite so small and on days like this I feel a little melancholy when I reminisce on their ‘baby’ days. Parenthood with babies whether it be first, second or third time round is blooming hard work. You’re tired, yearning for that little nap and to not be woken too many times in the night. It’s hard!

So many people have said during those very days “make the most of it they grow up so quickly” and yes that’s so true even though at the time it feels like those days would last forever. They don’t.

Fast forward a fair few years and my days now are a mix of ferrying various children to different clubs; dance, guitar, cricket, football and never ending social events. Discussions on which band is better, who is England’s best left back and which YouTuber has the most followers now fill our dinner table on an evening. Little quarrels over untidy bedrooms, who has used someone else’s property and who didn’t flush the toilet echo around the house. The concerns of making sure they don’t bump their heads when they start walking have been replaced with worrying about their education and teaching them to keep themselves safe when they’re not with you or online.

They are all becoming individuals with their own unique life ahead of them and I’m proud as punch. But these are the things I miss from the baby days:-

1. I miss having just the time and quiet to sit with them asleep on my chest, just staring at their little faces and breathing in that lovely baby smell (albeit of congealed milk and baby sick).

2. I miss the little milestone moments; the first time they smiled, then spending ages trying to get them to do it again. The first proud rolling over and the first little pearly white tooth. The first time you walk in the nursery and they’re proudly standing up in their cot.

3. I miss buying little outfits; teenagers don’t want your input on fashion, just your cash and buying football kits for the boys just isn’t quite as fun.

4. I miss the first garbled words and the funny way they’d pronounce certain people’s names.

5. I just miss those little round faces which have now evolved into much bigger versions. These bigger versions make me laugh so much these days and we have so much fun now they’re grown up more but I’d love to have just one day with them as they were again.

On a day like today when I’m reminiscing, I have to remind myself that all those little moments are still within them. They don’t remember them but me and Daddy do. Those little people may have grown on the outside but they’re still those toothless little dribblers to us.

So, if you do happen to be having one of those ‘baby days’ today with your little one, as much of a cliche as it is, take it in, etch every memory in your head because they truly do grow up so very fast.

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