Today was a simple day. Pretty routine. I dropped the baby at my parents, dropped Alexis at preschool and went to workout. I enjoy my time working out because it is my time. As I stepped and stepped I thought about a dear friend of my who is going through a hard time.
I look back at my life and think of the days I have wasted in regret, sadness, exhaustion and anger. I realize I have wasted those beautiful days they are gone forever. When I look at my darling daughters I think about the times I felt like I could not stand another second of the whining and crying but I realize soon my babies will be pushing my husband and me away. We will not have the option of scooping them up in our arms and kissing the tears or kiss a boo boo.
Which reminds me of this very morning as I am wake up I hear my daughter begging my sweet husband not to leave. "please daddy don't go to work" William tells her that he has to go to work and in his job he helps people so the people he help need him, so today she says "but daddy I need your help. " I know how hard it is for him to leave as she pleads with him. I tell her he works so that I can stay home with her, to provide for us, our beautiful home, Thomas our car (Alexis has nicknamed our car Thomas) and even the dance class she gets to attend. She does not really understand, but tries and she lets go of his leg. She truly misses him when he is at work.
So as we drive to her school we talk about what we are thankful for as I talk about her Daddy and how hard he works Alexis listens, I then talk about how happy I am that Emme is healthy, laid back and a sweet child, how thankful I am for my parents, William's parents, Kathleen and our many friends. When I talk about being thankful for Alexis she always laughs and says no mommy I am thankful for you and my little family. Which is what I cal our family I always say, we are a little family that takes care of each other, protects each other and are nice to each other. WOW how amazing life is. I feel blessed to be alive, a mother, a daughter, a wife and a loved sister. Thank you all.
You have to remember you will never have this minute back, so no matter what it is enjoy it, you are blessed.
Love
Kirsten
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2 comments:
Kirsten, your outlook on life is right on! Your babies will be up and out of the nest before you can blink; how wonderful you recognize this. Fantastic pictures and words. Your children will value this a lifetime and so will I. Much love, Pam
Delightful story, thought that you might enjoy the following.
Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after
you've had a baby.... somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, "normal" is history.
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Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct,somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.
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Somebody said being a mother is boring, somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a new driver's permit.
Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child will "turn
out good", somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee.
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>Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices, somebody
never came out the back door just in time to see her child hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window.
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>Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother.... somebody never helped a fourth grader with her math.
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Somebody said you can't love the second child as much as you love the first, somebody doesn't have two children.
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Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing questions in the books, somebody never had a child stuff a 'pearler' up her nose or in her sister's ears.
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Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and delivery, somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the
first day of kindergarten, or on a plane headed for military "boot
camp."
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Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back, somebody never organized seven giggling Brownies to sell cookies.
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Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married, somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or
daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings.
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Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves
home, somebody never had grandchildren.
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Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her, somebody isn't a mother.
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Somebody is not like you!
Thank Heaven
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