Your Going to Miss This.... Michelle East - Germantown Artist

Just heard this song and it touched my heart today as a mom and as an individual....

Your Going To Miss This
Sung by Trace Adkins

If you haven't ever heard this song or haven't in a while, here is the you tube link are the lyrics below.

Ponder this..... where do our lives go... trying to get to the next phase... the next achievement...
why can't we stop and just live .... why can't we be content?

I am in the process of purging my home and creating a simple space...(as simple as three kids and two cats allows)..... Went into a store today and asked what can I live with out instead of what do I have to have.

Right now my daughter has 5 years remaining until college. My son eight. My youngest 12 years.
Seems like a long time before I have an empty nest... however, the empty nest of the babies and preschoolers has begun this year with the beginning of Kindergarden.  I am going to miss that time of
diapers, bottles, loveys, car seats, strollers, nap times, play dates, onesies, footed pjs, nursery rhymes, sesame street, cribs, high chairs, sticky faces, dirty hands, crafts, board books, tears, screams, and lots and lots of love.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZIBediEAcUQ

Your Going to Miss This.
She was staring out the window
Of their SUV
Complaining, saying,
I cant wait to turn 18
She said, "I'll make my own money"
And I'll make my own rules"
Mama put the car in park 
Out there in front of the school
And she kissed her head
And said 'I was just like you"

You're going to miss this
You're going to want this back
You're going to wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're going to miss this

Before she knows it
She's a brand new bride
In her one bedroom apartment
And her daddy stops by
He tells her "It's a nice place"
She says "It'll do for now"
Starts talking about babies
And buying a house
Daddy shakes his head
And says "Baby just slow down"



Cause
You're going to miss this
You're going to want this back
You're going to wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're going to miss this

Five years later
There's a plumber
Working on the water heater
Dogs barking, phones ringing
One kids crying, one kids screaming
She keeps apologizing
He says "They don't bother me.
I've got two babies of my own.
One's 36, one's 23.
It's hard to believe..."

But
You're going to miss this
You're going to want this back
You're going to wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're going to miss this
You're going to miss this
Yeah you're going to miss this