I remember when I was little running around my neighborhood with my shoes off and making mud pies in the curb as the water ran down the street from everyones sprinklers. I remember my dad cleaning up my dirty little hands and looking at the bottoms of my feet and telling me that I need to put shoes on when I play outside because my feet were completely black. I watch my little girls outside playing in the dirt and getting so muddy and I laugh. I hope they remember days like these and not the days that I am yelling at them not to get dirty :) I hope they thoroughly use up their childhood and I hope they look back on it as fondly as I do.  

I posted the lyrics to this country song (I know I don't listen to country, but I love this poem) because it always makes me remember what matters and how fast it'll all go by.

I can remember when you fit in the palm of my hand
Felt so good in it, no bigger than a minute
How it amazes me, you're changing with every blink
Faster than a flower blooms they grow up all too soon

So let them be little 'cause they're only that way for a while
Give them hope, give them praise, give them love every day
Let them cry, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle
Oh just let them be little

I've never felt so much in one little tender touch
I live for those kisses, prayers and your wishes
Now that you're teaching me things only a child can see
Every night while we're on our knees all I ask is please

Let them be little 'cause they're only that way for a while
Give them hope, give them praise, give them love every day
Let them cry, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle
Oh just let them be little

So innocent, a precious soul, you turn around
It's time to let them go

So let them be little 'cause they're only that way for a while
Give them hope, give them praise, give them love every day
Let them cry, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle
Oh just let them be little

Let them be little 

P.S. I know this picture is blurry I did it on purpose :)