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  11. Perfect sense. Even when you know the days are long and the years are short, it still goes so fast ❤️

  12. Wait until your kid turns 28 (like my daughter is). Time just flies. Happy 20th to Hailey!

  14. My two adult children just turned 27 and 32 this month. It totally makes sense. I look back at videos of them when they were younger and wonder where the time passed. I was just looking at my video of me and my youngest at the women’s march to protest the Trump presidency in 2017 because his boyfriend was asking about it. The days are long the memories are sweet and always cherished. So you’re perfectly normal. Happy 20th birthday Hailey!

  15. Also wanted to say that I believe if you step outside of linear time, everything is actually happening simultaneously, like a chord of music. (yes, probably makes no sense, and I have no basis for this belief, other than it occurred to me one day and felt right!)

  16. Happy Birthday Hailey! And you too Jenny! It’s as much yours as theirs. It’s a mom birthday too. It’s very special and time is weird.

  17. I love that “Six feels like you are five but you are bigger and taller.” Well, guess what… 57 feels like 37 only you are creakier and crankier. LOL

  20. Our kids are the same age and also both only’s so to say full and empty makes absolute total sense. And that video is ridiculously cute.

  23. My baby turned 22 this month and moved into her first apartment. Empty and full. Happy birthday Hailey!!

  24. My baby is 40 years old. This cannot be true and yet it is. Time is a mind-f**k.
    Happy day Hailey!

  28. Happy birthday to Hailey! And in my house, we call the flying fur from our dog “Lola Glitter”. You’re not covered in shedding, you have been sprinkled with Lola Glitter. Wah waaah!

  29. Happy Birthday Hailey!
    May your spirit never grow old.
    We are always our mommies babies until the day we leave this earth, so yes, this makes perfect sense.
    Virtual hugs to Hailey’s momma!

  31. happiest of birthdays to hailey! i loved watching her turn 6 in the video, thank you for sharing that with us… one year i called my mom up to tell her that time was going by too fast, and she said “you think its going fast NOW? just wait till you’re my age!” she was so right.. my oldest is 40. i look in the mirror and say you are the mom to a 40 year old! just when the heck did that happen? i dont know.. my ‘baby’ is 31… being a mom is being both filled with happiness at what the day brings with your child, and filled with sadness that everyday something is lost, and the child grows up , and you sort of mourn the previous stages.. you cant give your child wings and then be sad that they flew.. ( this is what i constantly tell myself..) hugs to you jenny..

  32. Boy will be 27 in less than 2 months
    And he has two boys if his own
    So yeah the feeling is possibly one of the most normal feelings you’ve ever had

  34. 100% yes. Mine turned 20 last Saturday. Proud of the human they’ve become and sad my baby doesn’t “need” me anymore. Very definition of bittersweet.

  35. They were adorable and amazing, even way back then. Geez, I hope I got that pronoun right?

  37. It only goes faster. I have two grandsons older than Hailey. 😳😳 Hope they had a perfect day!

  41. yes rite of passage. parenthood and children have so many myriad pathways
    blessings, e

  42. 1. Wow Hailey is just awesome. Love that video.
    2. Yes. Yes, that’s exactly what it feels like.

  46. The 24th was my mom’s birthday, too – she is a young 86! My mom and Hailey are both wonderful. …cat hair fairy dust…I will copy & use that one. ;o)

  48. WAIT. Weren’t they like eight when you visited us in Denver? Wasn’t that like three years ago? -Phil

  50. I have an FB memory that comes around each year saying, “mommy, one day I’m not going to be three anymore. I’m going to be sixteen.” It’s happening in six months. Time is weird indeed.

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  52. Holy crap. I remember when I first found your blog, what, 12 years ago or something? I don’t remember. I just remember the really cute girl you had.

    She’s _20_? That’s not possible. My kids are still just 10-12 years old. Never mind they’re living in another state, THEY ARE 10-12 YEARS OLD. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. So if my kids are 10-12, Haily has to be, what, 8 maybe?

  53. Wish them happy birthday from me. I love this video, because yes being 5 feels like being 6 and all the rat of the years do too.

    I’m gonna take that fairy dust with me through my day

  54. Time is such a strange concept to think about. It feels like it’s moving faster when you’re having fun, especially playing crazy games. Maybe time isn’t as real as we think, just something we try to measure. What do you think?

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