Where Did the Years Go?

Of all the options for what one can do with their life.........my first and favorite choice was to be a Mother. That alone was enough.

I was blessed with two beautiful, darling, healthy, happy sons.

As I find myself, gray at the temples, with new wrinkles and age spots appearing, it is not these rites of passage that age me... it is those quiet moments, late at night, when I close my eyes and remember like it was yesterday, days of being "Mommy".

In the blink of an eye, the years passed. Just like that. In the blink of an eye.
Had I been wiser, I would have cherished each day more.........each special look, each hug, each kiss.

When I was a little girl, back in 1959, 1960... this was a commercial for Kodak film. I loved it. I would put on a dress and twirl for my Daddy and he'd sing it for me... until I was dizzy.

I still love, love, love, this song.... and it instantly brings tears to my eyes.... where did the years go? Oh, what I'd give to step back in time. I hear this song and I not only see my own life pass before my eyes, but my sons'.

Click here to watch the video, the lyrics are below. Harry Belafonte sang it.

Turn Around


Where are you going, my little one, little one,
Where are you going, my baby, my own?
Turn around and you're two,
Turn around and you're four,
Turn around and you're a young girl going out of my door.
Turn around, turn around,
Turn around and you're a young girl going out of my door.

Where are you going, my little one, little one,
Little dirndls and petticoats, where have you gone?2
Turn around and you're tiny,
Turn around and you're grown,
Turn around and you're a young wife with babes of your own.
Turn around, turn around,
Turn around and you're a young wife with babes of your own