Children grow up too fast. I blinked and my baby is 13, soon to be 14. So this afternoon when she wanted to go work on her soccer skills and her younger sister didn't want to walk with her to the local pitch (that's soccer vernacular for field), I said I'd go and surprisingly, she didn't protest.
Rather than walk to the school, I choose to take her down to campus an we played on one of the campus rec fields. It was a beautiful hour. We spent the time passing, working on shots on goal and corner kicks. Afterward she wanted to get a smoothie from Juice Stop...so that's what we did.
She probably didn't notice but I loved every minute of it. I know these moments are fleeting, the time she will want to spend with me is rapidly being replaced by the time she wants to spend with her friends. This is a lesson that I wish I would have learned earlier. Time with your little ones is very precious!
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