Where do babies go ! Warning kind of whiny and nostalgic

I tell you where they go,they grow and grow and grow and then before you know it
there are no more fingerprints on the wall.No more toys on the floor.Those babies are gone and usually before you are quite finished them too.Oh they ring occasionally to ask if its going to kill them if they cook frozen steak,or as happened once they want the recipe for that white fluffy stuff you made them so many times (after much thinking this was mashed potatoes).They ring to ask if their eye is red will they be okay.or perhaps $20 to tide them till payday.But them babies are long gone and now you are just on standby.I have four sons and only one left at home and i miss my sons sooo much.I see them at times not often they all have lives and jobs and they forget to ring.But the time just flew in a wink and yesterday my eldest baby turned 28 and he is a man (but to me he is forever my Matty)So i guess there is a mothers mourning for what they were and the realisation that you have to accept that's what is meant to happen.But oh a mothers lot is hard ,to give birth and have to share what was once yours alone and then to love and hug and hurt for them to fight sometimes so hard for (and against them as they turn into teens) To congratulate yourself that you managed to keep them alive, Sometimes damaged often stitched but yes they survived and hey no one is more amazed than you!And then simply to let them go and become what ? A mother waiting for them to remember you love them more than anything in the world.I am glad my eldest has found a lovely
partner and that she is so good for him.I want that for my next two sons too and that they be happy.Matthew just got back from the United states its their second big trip and since i have never left Australia i was so happy for them.Oh i know this is a nostalgia post but hey at least once a year is acceptable I'm the mother of sons don't you know !So since i am being pathetic here is my Alex now 15 at about 2 and he was a little pixie.