Parenting is the hardest job in the entire world.

It’s exhausting, it’s challenging, its non stop.

There are not many breaks, there are moments where you aren’t focused 100% but always in the back of your mind there are your kids.

You are 100% in the trenches, in the midst of it and then one day you look up and realize.

They are 5 years old this week.

You blinked and they are turning 5.

They are in 5th grade this week…didn’t they just start kindergarten?

You blinked and they are in 5th grade.

They are getting ready to start a career job…

You blinked and they are 18 and starting in the workforce.

They started their 4th year of college.

You blinked and they are 21 and living independently half a state away.

I’m feeling overwhelmed by the ages and stages, the balance of figuring out the ins and outs but I know I will blink and it will have changed again.