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Where did the time go?

School is starting up for the 2016-2017 school year and everyone is starting to post back to school pictures. This year we will have a 2nd grader and twin kindergartners. While I am (nervously) excited to have three children in school, I cannot believe how quickly time has passed. And I feel like I'm not the only one who feels that way. So many of the back to school posts say, "Where has time gone?" There is an expression that always pops up in the mom circles: "The days are long but the years are short." When I think about our twins, this is how old I think of them in my mind:   And instead, they are big bad upcoming kindergartners now. And our oldest... I still think of him as a preschooler. Instead, he's now the oldest of FIVE children and our towering upcoming 2nd grader, at 4'8": The first days of preschool were shocking to me as well, disbelief that we now were at an age where our children were off to school on their own. ...