{"id":401,"date":"2011-07-20T08:51:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T08:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinkletoesblogstalker.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2011-07-20T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T08:51:39","slug":"the_passage_of_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pinkletoesblogstalker.com\/blog\/the_passage_of_time\/","title":{"rendered":"the passage of time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"w_austin_urban_family_portraits.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/pinkletoesblogstalker.com\/w_austin_urban_family_portraits.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"728\" width=\"910\" \/> <\/p>\n<div>Two major things in my life have caused me to obsess over the passage of time: my children and my job. When I was younger (and before I had kids), time seemed to move so slowly. I couldn&#8217;t wait to graduate high school, I couldn&#8217;t wait to finish college, I couldn&#8217;t wait to be married, I couldn&#8217;t wait to have a baby. <\/p>\n<p>But now I want to put the breaks on everything. Everything is moving much, much too quickly. I just want this merry-go-round to stop for just a second and let me take it all in for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>And unfortunately, my job makes me feel this way about my clients, too. I&#8217;m sure I must&#8217;ve seemed like that annoying aunt that pinches everyone&#8217;s cheeks and says, &#8220;My, how you&#8217;ve grown!&#8221; when I saw them again for our session. I was just so overwhelmed with how much the children (well, some of them don&#8217;t even seem like children anymore) had changed. See that adorable little red-head in the blue shirt? Yeah. <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkletoes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/thislittlemanrocks\/\">This was him<\/a> just a few years ago. And the littlest guy wasn&#8217;t even a glimmer in mom&#8217;s eye yet. But the older two&#8230;wow! They are now beautiful and protective and confident and intelligent young adults.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"w2_austin_family_photographer.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/pinkletoesblogstalker.com\/w2_austin_family_photographer.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"3789\" width=\"910\" \/>In her pre-session questionairre, mom wrote that she wanted to document where they were at this point in time: &#8220;son <span class=\"il\">taller<\/span> <span class=\"il\">than<\/span> his mom, but not dad. daughter getting so pretty and surviving as the lone girl. J being crazy. baby being snuggly.&#8221; These words really struck a chord with me. I love how she noticed this important milestone for her family. I loved this little preview of what my life might be like in just a few short years. 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