No one could have prepared me for how time would change after I had children. Recently I found myself holding a sick kid in the recliner during the wee hours of the night. As I sat there I watched the pictures slide across on our digital picture frame. I was saddened to see how much my daughter has grown in the past 2 and 1/2 years we have had her in our lives. It made me realize how fleeting this time is. How much I have to appreciate all those small things-these moments in time that I will never have again.
I consider it a blessing to be able to stay home with my children everyday. I know my husband does not know how much I really do appreciate how hard he works so I can do that...because I so rarely tell him. There are so many little moments of chaos that can happen in any given day with 2 children that are so little. It is hard to not get caught up in the craziness of it all.
Things that should take a capable person a short time to complete now take up the better part of a day-and that is okay. I am learning that it is more important to let my children do for themselves than it is to 'get things done'. So what if the laundry takes 5 times as long, or the dishwasher has to unloaded piece by pain-stakingly slow, piece. I only have these little babies for a short while, and I have to make the most of this time. It goes by way too fast.
