Gwenny's Growing

This morning I got up and went to change Gwen into some warm clothes.  The weather changed today and the high is only about 75 degrees.  The low this morning was in the 40s!  As I'm looking through her drawers of clothes, I'm noticing that nothing will fit her anymore!  Everything in that drawer was either a newborn or 0-3 month size.  I knew it was time to pack it up and bring some new stuff in.  Why is this so much harder to do this time around?
So I laid Gwen on the floor in her room and listened to her coo as I held up each outfit and determined that 'yes, it is too small.' It was hard to believe that the newborn onsies actually fit her and were loose on her at one time.  Why is it I didn't notice she was growing?  So we filled a box with clothes and now have about 6 or 7 outfits that will fit.  Time to go shopping again!  And what will I do with that box?  Well, that is what is so hard about this.  Before I was able to put it in the garage and save it for the next baby.  Only this time I know for certain that there won't be another baby.  My time of building a family is over.  Our family is complete.  Gwen will forever be the 'baby' of the family.  And so with a heavy heart I must determine what to do with those clothes.  I must find someone to give them to that is just beginning to build their family.  How did I get this old?  Wasn't it yesterday that I was 19 years old and commuting to college from my parents' house?  Adults always tell you how fast time flies and how quickly life goes by, but I never really believed it.  I  just thought that is something old people say.  Well, here I am, 31 years old and packing away the last of the newborn baby clothes that I will ever need in this house.  Oh time, please slow down!!!  I need to stop typing now so I can pick up the crying baby laying in her boppy behind me.  I need to soak up every minute that I have to hold her because all too soon I will be typing about her first birthday, her first day of school, her graduation...
Ok, life, I'm walking away from the computer.  Don't keep moving without me!