My Mom shared this poem with me over Facebook. After reading it out loud, I immediately hugged and kissed my son! Go read this touching poem about growing up and cherishing our children while they’re small.
If you know where this poem came from, please do share so we can give proper credit!
Our kids grow up so fast. Sometimes I want to tell time to freeze so I can enjoy my son more. I wish there was a time travel machine so I could go back and cherish my son as an infant even more. I was mostly dazed during the first few months, being a new Mom and all!
I won’t always cry, Mummy,
When you leave the room
and my supermarket tantrums,
Will end too soon,
I won’t always wake, Daddy,
For cuddles through the night
& one day you’ll miss,
Having a chocolate face to wipe.
Yo won’t always wake to find my foot,
is kicking you out of bed,
Or find me sideways on your pillow,,
Where you want to lay your head.
You won’t always have to carry me,
In asleep from the car,
Or piggy back me downt he road,
When my little legs can’t walk that far,
So cherish every cuddle,
Remember them all,
Because one day, Mummy.
I won’t be this small.
This poem about cherishing your kids totally slays me. I wish I could go home now and play puzzles or cars with him instead of finishing up some reports.
I love you, Timmy!!! You’ll always be my baby!!!
Hi! I'm Toni Tiu,
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Chrissy Caballero
February 11, 2014 at 11:22 am (10 years ago)Now I want to go home too!!!
Thank you for sharing this Toni 
Toni
February 11, 2014 at 6:18 pm (10 years ago)Sure thing, Chrissy! Yes, let’s go home na. Huhu!
Chrissie
February 11, 2014 at 6:03 pm (10 years ago)To add:
I won’t pester you to watch Hi5 with me forever, mama,
so let’s enjoy staring at Tim together while I still do.
XD
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Toni
February 11, 2014 at 6:18 pm (10 years ago)Oh Tim is so cuuuuuuuute!
janakidiary
February 11, 2014 at 6:45 pm (10 years ago)Gosh! This really made me cry. Just recently, my daughter turned 7 and things are really different now with her than, say, 3 years ago. I wish they wont grow up as fast.
Toni
February 12, 2014 at 4:39 pm (10 years ago)I get taken aback when it hits me that my son is turning 5 this year. Too fast, time, you’re flying too fast!
mommy ni julio
February 11, 2014 at 10:38 pm (10 years ago)Wish it’s Friday so I can go home and be with my son.
Toni
February 12, 2014 at 4:40 pm (10 years ago)Awww *hugs* Isang tulog nalang, Mommy!
Toni
February 12, 2014 at 4:40 pm (10 years ago)Ay dalawang tulog pala
(Thought it was Thursday today)
Ma. Teresa Grech Quiatchon Racal
February 12, 2014 at 7:07 am (10 years ago)aaawwww…. this poem is really wonderful. Although I have 2 teenagers already, I could still give them kisses and still say I LOVE YOU, and they are not embarrassed by it. With regards to my youngest, despite and inspite her being so makulit and all, at the end of the day I could still give her hugs, kisses and still say I LOVE YOU, as one of my relative priest told me, YAAN MO NG MAKULIT YANG SI AMAYA KASI ISANG ARAW ANG KAKULITAN NIYAN ANG MAMIMISS MO… and come to think of it, oo nga naman, after reading this poem…
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Toni
February 12, 2014 at 4:41 pm (10 years ago)Oo nga eh. When Timmy’s being makulit and all, I really stop myself from trying to get mad. Pag kinukulit niya ako, I try to enjoy it as much as I can na. Kasi baka in a few years, ibang girl na kukulitin niya. Waaaah!
A Gracious Life
February 12, 2014 at 4:16 pm (10 years ago)There are days when I think about my “office days,” but I quickly realize that all that I have now, being there for my youngest son, really being there — it’s a luxury for some parents and something I missed with my two older ones. I am now at my best when I’m around him. I’ve shed so much and gained so much — in meaningful ways. Now my little one is wiggling out of the youngster years…thank God I embraced the luxury of just being there.
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Toni
February 12, 2014 at 4:43 pm (10 years ago)You’re a stay-at-home-Mom? *hugs* I wish I could work from home again and spend more time with my son!
33Elisa
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