The end of summer is quickly approaching and I can’t help but feel a little bit sad about that. I notice the days growing shorter and the nights becoming cooler.

I know that our evenings sitting on the porch will soon draw to and end.

We have already enjoyed our final afternoons spent at the pool.

No more dipping painted toes in the pool

while enjoying a great book.

But most off all, I am going to miss this little face being home with me all day every day as we start into the new journey of preschool. I am so excited for him  to experience all the things to come and make some new friends but at the same time, I wish I could live here in these moments forever with my little ones.

The past four and half years have passed so quickly and I try to remind myself constantly to live in the moment as far as my babies are concerned. I know that once we start onto this path in a couple more weeks, before I know it, 14 years will have passed and my “baby” will be leaving home.

Just today I read a quote from Billy Graham about loving your kids and letting them go:

“A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged. The hug lets her know she is valuable. The unhug lets her know that she is viable. If you’re always shoving your child away, they will cling to you for love. If you’re always holding them closer, they will cling to you for fear.”

It can be so hard to loosen our hold on our little ones and let them take those first teetering steps into the life God has planned for them. But  I trust the Lord who entrusted him to us and pray that my sweet boy will cling to the one who made him as we begin to gradually “unhug” him growing from a sweet little boy to a man of great honor.

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