Comments on: Good night, Whit

By: Lauren @ Embrace the Detour

Lauren @ Embrace the Detour — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:19:12 +0000

I did not know you back then, when you wrote this. I am so very glad I’ve found it now. Exquisitely beautiful. I just love this.

By: Shawn Phillips

Shawn Phillips — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:35:03 +0000

… I love you right up to the moon… and back!

Oh how I know this ride… my son just turned 6 and I find each day a new birth and death… things change and I know the change will speed up, become more drastic. There are already signs of separation, of all sorts of independence.

And yet he’s still my little boy, he still crawls in bed with me and cuddles… only the times are less and the moments ever more cherished.

Thanks for sharing.

Shawn

By: kristen@nst

kristen@nst — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:54:44 +0000

Well this was just beautiful. Maybe I liked it so much because I could imagine all of that for myself and my baby boys. One of them turns 8 in a matter of days. Eight. It’s hard to believe.

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By: Privilege of Parenting

Privilege of Parenting — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:35:59 +0000

Got me crying… in a good way, just like you.

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Today « Drama For Mama — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:22:23 +0000

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By: Kristen @ Motherese

Kristen @ Motherese — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:12:18 +0000

I have just started to feel the baby leaving Big Boy and the child taking his place. And as much as I enjoy our conversations and our dates, I feel like an ache his growing up and growing away – just as you have so beautifully captured here.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:05:57 +0000

What a sweet post… I have a hard time with Fynn being three, I can’t even imagine 5! And then the fact that Paige will one day be 5? I cannot even fathom it
Thank you for the honest sweet words.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:56:44 +0000

I look at my biggest boy, once the only boy, and I can’t remember how he’s gotten so big. There is no “baby” left in his face, nor his body. He is slim, sleek, muscular and naturally toned. He is boy. All boy. Too big.

I look at pictures of his infancy, his toddler years, his pre-school years and wonder where it went. Him. Time. Life when he was young. Vanished. Evaporated. Sometimes it feels as if it never existed. But then I know, when I feel the emotion as large as a nine-month fetus in a rock-hard belly, that it was real and I did cherish all of it. Every minute. Even though it’s past now.

Sigh. I hear you. My baby is still a baby but I already dread the day you are writing about. The day I know it’s turned to something else. Baby to boy. Boy to man. Sigh.