936 saturdays

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when summer vacation is just about over and school is getting ready to resume

there's a little part of me thats excited for my days to be mine again. 

that lasts all of three seconds. 

the boys walk out the door and i stand on the porch watching as the go. 

i turn back and look at the empty house and my heart aches as i 

long for them to be inside sleeping in soundly. 

// one of my very favorite things to do is sneak into to their rooms at night just to listen to them breath. // 

i saw a print recently that read something along the lines of this:

YOU HAVE 936 SATURDAYS WITH YOUR CHILD.

HOW WILL YOU SPEND THEM?

that hit me really hard. 

936 saturdays? that's assuming your child doesn't want to spend any of those with his or her family or friends for the first 18 years of life. ha! it's natural for kids to want to spread their wings and form relationships with others. as a parent you want that. 

the boy who made me a momma just turned 15. 

i'd say, that when he was about 7 he started wanting to have sleepovers with his cousins.

when he was around 10 he wanted to have sleepovers or hang outs with friends on the weekends.

so really you have way fewer saturdays than 936 with your child. 

motherhood can be heartbreaking.

so now lets assume that i have three years of saturdays, 

that's 156 left with my boy before he heads of to college. 

you better believe that i'm going to make each and every one count. 

when i started this post i really didn't know where it was going and it surely isn't meant to be a downer, but a reminder to enjoy the heck out of every day.

so tomorrow, because my little family definitely goes together like coffee and donuts, 

as soon as the wake i think we'll go for some coffee and donuts. 

happy weekend friends.

enjoy the heck out of it!