Tonight was the last time I put her down as a baby...Because tomorrow, Isabel will turn one, and has officially entered the toddler realm.
How did time fly by so fast? All those cliches you hear are really true.
“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.”
~ Anna Quindlen, author, "Loud and Clear"
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Unfortunately, this is one of the constant struggle that I face, trying to make time for work, make time for responsibilities, make time for her, and make time myself. There's always a ton to be done, and tons of other things that I want to do. Inevitably, something is always put aside, for later. For tomorrow. For next time.
And I want to put a stop to that.
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