365 Days of Photos - Day 13

I found this poem, and my oh my how it made me think. We as parents do this all too often. So if you're reading this, and have wee little ones or haven't had children yet but are planning to, this is most definitely something for you to keep in the back of your mind. I can honestly remember saying at times, I wish they could walk, or talk, can't wait until their first day of school. Oh what I wouldn't give to have my babies, be just that, babies again. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love who and what my children are becoming. They are 3 of the most wonderful, beautiful, thoughtful, helpful, empathetic children I know. But just to hold those sweet little babes again..............

Perspective.........

As the years go by, you forget the bad parts. Or at least you put them in perspective as unimportant.

Before you know it, you're wishing you had a baby around again. But be careful not to wish you life away.

First you wish you were pregnant. And then you wish you had a big belly to show off. But when the belly gets to be a burden, you wish for labor to come. And as soon as it comes, you wish it were over. You wish for the baby, and then you wish he was older. You wish your children toilet trained and off to school. You wish them grown up. And then you get what you wish, and your children are gone, and you've wished motherhood away.

The time it takes to have a baby is so fleeting and so full of everything, that maybe there isn't opportunity to savor it until it's over. And when it's over, you're left with you photographs and your memories and your regrets that you didn't appreciate it all the more at the time. You forget how busy you were and how tired. You remember only how wonderful it was to be a mother, and is.

So savor every morsel of motherhood as it comes along. Especially if, like most women today you're only having one, or two, or even three children. In the course of a lifetime, that not so many times to do something as precious as making a baby. It's important to make it count.  ~~ Alexandra McCall ~~