This day Baby...

As dawn breaks on this new day and another restless night is behind us,  I can only remind myself my babies won't need me in the middle of the night forever.  Since our Ellie girl arrived, our sweet Kate has decided she doesn't need a full night's rest anymore.  Baby sister is actually sleeping longer intervals than big sister.  And as much as I know the "correct" thing to do (put her back in bed and leave her) the sweet little voice that comes into our room and begs "mommy/daddy come lay with me" wins, every time.  Because I know for a fact, one day I will be longing to be right back in a twin bed snuggled with my girl.

It was only after we brought Ellie home from the hospital that I really began to realize just how fast time had come and gone since Kate was born.  I couldn't even make it through our bedtime lullabies without crying my eyes out that night with Kate.  I kept thinking, Didn't I just bring YOU home?!   And now you are such a big girl, FULL of life and love and independence. Oh, the independence.

See that's the thing with life, it comes and goes before we really realize it.  And if I've realized one thing from having my babies it's, I don't want to look back on my life and ask myself, "WHERE DID THE YEARS GO?!?!?"  Unfortunately for many of us, life becomes a blur as we race through it way too fast. Always looking towards what life has for us next.

Can we just stop and cherish today?

My hope for them, and actually for myself too, is that we all learn how to cherish the day.

The day that may be long and even repetitive.  The day that is full of adventure and fun.  The day that is even trying.  Whatever the day holds, may it be one that we hold on to and choose to revel in.  Because the next days and years are upon us far too quickly.

"You have nothing in this world more precious than your children

When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary,

When you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life,

Nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out...

Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value...

The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days."

-Gordon B. Hinckley