Butterfly Visits
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The Gift Of An Ordinary Day...
Seeing my oldest and my youngest together like this reminded me of how fast life goes...How before we know it...These precious moments will have slipped away...
I came across a video The Gift Of An Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison...A beautiful memoir of family transition...Reminding us to cherish the beauty of everyday life...
It hit home...And I bawled my eyes out...
Being a mom of a newborn but also to an 11 year old on the verge of adolescence - I have seen how fast the years have passed...
"You think the life you have right now is the only life there is...The one that is going to last forever...And so its easy to take it all for granted...The uneventful days...The ordinary days..." - KK
Life goes by...We smile, we laugh, we worry...There are accomplishments...There are disappointments...But most of all, there are plain old happy moments...Childhood...Family...But the days go by...The moments fade away...
And then somehow...Somewhere...The end slowly creeps up on us...Changes...
"And it hits you...The life you once knew is no longer..." - KK
You can't go back...The days of cuddling on the couch - a hug just because - bedtime stories - dandelion bouquets - dripping ice cream cones - tucking them into bed - holding hands...All these little things we took for granted - have suddenly slipped away...And are lost forever...
I have really noticed this lately with Olivier's broken knee...He has started needing me again...Needing me to help him in and out of the shower - needing me to help him get dressed - needing me to help him to bed...And it has made me realize - that he hasn't needed me like this...For a while now...He has grown up...
"The life that once seemed like forever...Has already slipped away..." - KK
Routines change...Activities change...Your role as a parent changes...They change...
As you watch them grow - you begin to realize "this time of parent and children living together under one roof isn't the whole story after all - its just one chapter..." -KK
One chapter - I wish I could hold on to forever...
But I know...This part of motherhood...The part that has defined who I am for so many years...Will also one day come to an end...
I look at Olivier - and see the uneventful days we now share...Real conversations - hockey games - interests we share - music on the radio - a text when I'm not home...And I know I have to cherish these moments too...Before these also slip away...
"Savor every minute of the life you have now...For too soon they will be gone...the house will ring with a new kind of silence...And you will wonder - how did it all end so fast...And the memories you will give anything to relive - are the ones that came and went...The most wonderful gift you have...The one you will cherish above all others...Is the gift of all those perfectly ordinary days..."-KK
Friday, March 22, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Baby Beautiful
"Juliette is the sweetest little thing...
She is always smiling...
Always laughing...
I can't imagine my life without her...
She has stolen our hearts...
And the way her Daddy looks at her...
Melts mine...
I still can't believe she is really here...
Still can't believe she found her way home..."
Beautiful Baby Girl
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