Growth Spurt

Growth Spurt

Growth of any kind often comes in fits and starts and yet often we are unaware of the work going on behind the scenes of a growth spurt. The rapid evolution of childhood is not unlike how it happens in adulthood, it’s just not quite as physically exaggerated.

Looking back to only a year ago, I recognize how much has changed in a short amount of time. My youngest has since learned to read on her own, swim with ease, and cruise around gracefully on her bike (without her training wheels). My oldest has will be a teen in mere months and has changed dramatically over the year. And I too feel like a new person on many levels with all that I’ve experienced.

Phew! That is a lot of growing in one year.

What is your life looking like these days? I encourage you to look back to mark how far you’ve come. Perhaps you have an photo to share that reminds you how much growing has taken place in your own life. I got a head start for my Best Shot Monday post this week.

8 Comments
  • Cara
    Posted at 02:10h, 09 August Reply

    Great minds think alike, I too got a head start…planning for a busy week. I love the perspective of both the photo and the post!
    This week my best shot is welcoming my friend to motherhood which makes you grow more than you can ever imagine.

  • Puna
    Posted at 11:02h, 09 August Reply

    What a cute image. Love the colors. They do grow so fast…I don’t know how my own child got to be so tall with as little as he eats.

    Picky Eaters Unite

  • Aia
    Posted at 13:11h, 09 August Reply

    great way to document her growth. i am seeing growth all around me, in my kids & within myself. it’s a powerful thing.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/aclamp/4875612962/

  • DebraP
    Posted at 20:52h, 09 August Reply

    Perfect questions to pose for me!! I’ve been mulling this post for a week, and you inspired me to take time to write it down. Thanks Tracey for the inspiration!!

    http://everydayextraordinary1.blogspot.com/

  • Kim
    Posted at 03:32h, 10 August Reply

    My BSM – http://www.thruacrackedlens.blogspot.com
    Keystone, Colorado….
    The things this awesome tree had to have seen in it’s lifetime.
    Growth…. and how we continue to grow within, and for others even when our time is through.

  • Michelle Kennedy
    Posted at 05:37h, 10 August Reply

    http://kennedyink.blogspot.com/2010/08/growth.html

    not so much on the growth this week. must be hormones – at least that’s what I’m blaming it on.

  • Lori Sanders
    Posted at 12:16h, 10 August Reply

    I read this and started thinking about all the changes in my life over the last year and there have been plenty! Sometimes I have to pinch myself that I am living this life. So many dreams have come true all I had to do was let them happen.

    Permission to Dream, Heart and Soul

  • Anita
    Posted at 05:50h, 12 August Reply

    I’m in a huge transition with my children…my son turns 21 in November, my daughter graduates from high school! HOLY COW!!!! Where has the time gone! Enjoy those babies while you can, cause in a blink of an eye they are all grown up!

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