Shopping and Memories
Shopping can be a chore, or it can be fun for all. Prom dress shopping was definitely fun for all. Finding the perfect dress, going from one store to another, ooooing and aahhhing over all the beautiful dresses, and then some more as the sale prices were seen…fun times, fun people, fun with my daughters.
Times such as these are becoming more and more precious to me as I watch my children slowly (but it seems too fast), grow up, move on, and become adults.
That’s one great thing about having a lot of kids, by the time the third and fourth ones come around to nearing adulthood, you know how to appreciate the time together as parent and child, and hold it in your heart even more, on purpose, knowing it will be short lived. Before you know it, it is parent and young adult…still your child, but also your friend.
This is nice too, but holding the memories of childhood helps it be even better.
My advice to young parents: Make memories, and remember on purpose.
As they grow up and develop lives apart from you, you will continue to make memories, but they will be of a different variety than when they were young.
Growing up can be difficult, watching how fast they grow up can be even more difficult; but if the memories are there of time spent together, you will have an easier time letting them go, and letting them grow.
Shopping and memories, part of letting them grow up.
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