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Original poster

to want life to stay exactly as it is at the moment?

36 replies

emkana · 12/05/2009 22:14

Dd's are seven and five and adorable.

Ds is nearly three and so cute and funny.

Life is great.

Don't want things to change ever...
but they will.

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SoupDragon · 12/05/2009 22:15

What's round the corner may be better though

Original poster
emkana · 12/05/2009 22:16

ah yes but ds will go to school and I'll have to decide what to do with myself after eight (EIGHT ) years of SAHMdom...

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diedandgonetodevon · 12/05/2009 22:17

YANBU. Please stop the clock now! Wouldn't change a thing right now

bargainhuntingbetty · 12/05/2009 22:18

No YANBU, I have just finished saying to my aunt that I want the kids to stay as they are. Not get any older. I am really trying to enjoy them just now as I know I will blink andd it will be all boyfriends and fashion clothes (dd1 is only 8 and is already into fashion clothes). Its so unfair that they have to grow up.

SoupDragon · 12/05/2009 22:21

I want my snuggly snuffly little BabyDragon back instead of the small bundle of bossiness and attitude that she is right now.

Original poster
emkana · 12/05/2009 22:21

Ha! But back then babydragon could never be put down for a minute, so there!

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moffat · 12/05/2009 22:22

I know what you mean, mine are also seven and five and such fun to be with.

morningpaper · 12/05/2009 22:23

aaaaaaah emkana

Let's all sing some Abba

read and blub

SoupDragon · 12/05/2009 22:25

Yes, but she was snuggly and snuffly and (this is the key bit) didn't answer back.

Sorrento · 12/05/2009 22:26

I agree I'd often like to press freeze frame and stay in this moment forever

Original poster
emkana · 12/05/2009 22:26

morningpaper! STOP it!

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morningpaper · 12/05/2009 22:28

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
And save it from the funny tricks of time
Slipping through my fingeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrsssssss

Original poster
emkana · 12/05/2009 22:29

not listening!

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staranise · 12/05/2009 22:31

I had what will be my third and probably last baby five months ago and he is sooooo gorgeous, so sweet and smiley and cuddley, really don't want him to grow up into a smelly teenage boy who never washes or tells his mum where he's going

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emkana · 12/05/2009 22:32

And because I feel this way I keep having these crazy thoughts that I should have another one!

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kidowner · 12/05/2009 22:57

OMG I loved those baby noises, gurgles, gummy smiles so much yet mine were all walking by 12 months (damn!)

Kept doing it again and again but by no.4 had to physically pinch myself and say "Remember this moment, it won't last so savour it NOW"

Now no babies, all interesting dc, don't miss bfeeding, love my brood, want to foster to give homes to all dc who haven't got a loving home.

Know it's totally unrealistic, dh doesn't want to anyway.

Enjoy them and savour the moment!My 3 y.o has the cutest chipmunk voice ever!

anniemac · 12/05/2009 23:03

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Countingthegreyhairs · 12/05/2009 23:10

Stop it everyone ... you've set me off now

these get quoted on Mumsnet every so often ...

Beattie Is Three

At the top of the stairs
I ask for her hand. O.K.
She gives it to me.
How her first fits my palm,
A bunch of consolation.
We take our time
Down the steep carpetway
As I wish silently
That the stairs were endless.

(Adrian Mitchell)

and one from Yeats;

The angels are stooping
Above your bed;
They weary of trooping
With the whimpering dead.

God's laughing in heaven
To see you so good;
The Shining Seven
Are gay with His mood.

I kiss you and kiss you,
My pigeon, my own;
Ah, how I shall miss you
When you have grown.

Original poster
emkana · 12/05/2009 23:14

Makes you wonder how people with grown up children get through the day

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hatwoman · 12/05/2009 23:16

mine are 8 and 7 ( how did that happen?) and rather lovely at the moment. but they've been bloody hard work recently too. and that scares me too because I sometimes forget to stop and appreciate. thanks for reminding me. (hat refuses to click on that Abba link having twice had to pretend I wasn't blubbing in the cinema)

sleepwhenidie · 12/05/2009 23:20

This really isn't fair to a pg person you know...I will now have to explain to DH (due home any sec) why I am sitting here in tears...although, when I tell him, he will probably be as bad, he's worse than me about the DC's growing up

SoupDragon · 13/05/2009 08:03

Thinking about it, what I want is a baby version of those sleeping kittens you can get - the ones that snore gently. It needs to look like the top photo in my profile and snuffle gently and occasionally stretch and yawn.

BradfordMum · 13/05/2009 08:17

My DC are 24, 21 and 19.
I mourn their toddlerhoods.
Luckily we have lots of home movies of them, but I usually end up in floods of tears!
Enjoy your babies, sob!

Sally x

EvenBetaDad · 13/05/2009 08:29

I feel the same.

Last night DS1 (9) wanted to hold my hand when we were walking home after he had an upsetting day at school. He normally does not want to and I felt sad he might soon never want to again.

nickschick · 13/05/2009 08:32

My eldest ds leaves school next week i'm sad it was just last week I'm sure I was watching him play in the sand.

EvenBetaDad my ds1(15) had gum surgery in the summer holidays as we left the surgery he held my hand tight.