“My, how you’ve grown.”
I remember that phrase from my childhood days too.
“Just wait and see.”
I remember those words and how they chided me,
when patient was the hardest thing to be.
This song has been on my mind for a while. There, in my mind, it’s bittersweet and lovely and I can think aobut it and move on to something else, but when I click “play” on the video and hear Natalie Merchant singing, the tears spring to my eyes and my throat closes up and I’m getting old and everyone is dying and my children will never again be the sweet fat babies who only loved me and never argued with me.
See this morning’s post.
This song killed me before I had children. It’s much, much worse now. I considered making my own slideshow of pictures of Kyle and Brady through the years to go with it but I don’t think I can handle it. I’m already crying just listening to it!
I just booked a flight to visit my sister (the once-named “Auntie Rola”) in January, because I simply cannot stand being away from her baby, my niece, who was born on August 17. What a great day.
But I haven’t seen her since then, and I am cursed to see her once or twice a year from now on, if I’m lucky. Her brother, my nephew Dominick (or “Donimick” as Brady calls him) thankfully knows me and loves me and the kids too. We do a pretty good job of staying present in each other’s family’s minds. I’m sure I can do better. It’s no substitute for actually being there.
Every time we say goodbye you’re frozen in my mind
as a child that you never will be, will be again.
You can make a playlist for me anytime!
Indeed! That song STABS me in the heart too! It is SO bittersweet! Time just goes TOO FAST, and our little ones just grow up WAY too fast!! I want to find a remastered version of that song and others of the 10,000 Maniacs, and while I have not yet spent much time digging around, I certainly have not found it easily. Anyone know it can be found?