Will I miss you?

My thought for the day is: do parents miss their children as they used to be? When my girls have become proper schoolgirls, say 7 and 10, will I be nostalgic about the days of high chairs and stairgates, or will I enjoy the new stage with no looking back? Equally, when my girls are young ladies, as teenagers, will I miss them waking at 7am on the dot and piling into our bed? Do my parents miss me as a child? Do I seem like a completely different person now? 

I am so quick to get fed up with early wake ups, CBeebies tv, constant demands to play games and snotty-nosed hugs. I do understand when people say 'make the most of this stage', but when it feels like you're in the trenches of having young children, you can lose sight of how these things won't last forever. It makes me desperately sad to think of these things ending. Even the calls in the middle of the night and the dirty fingerprints on my clothes.