Happy First Day of Spring!!!! Life has expanded here this past week as we’ve welcomed some of the nicer weather we’ve seen in a long time. Last week was full to the brim of meetings with friends, packages arriving at our doorstep and suitcases getting packed. We headed out of town for the weekend and frolicked on the beach in Port Townsend. Our little getaway could not have come at a better time and we could not have picked a less rainy weekend to go.
Now that we’re back home, with a finicky computer, pile of laundry, and a few hundred photos to look through, all I want to do is just take a moment ~ a quick second to take it all in. Today our baby is 11 months old and I’m just baffled. If I didn’t have a calendar directly in front of me and her soft snores coming from the other room, I’d guess that we just welcomed her into this world a couple days ago.
My baby is growing and sprouting at lightning speed, I hardly know how to keep up with her and all her shenanigans. I barely finish celebrating one of her accomplishments or just taking a deep breath of her hair, before she’s off and doing something else utterly amazing and stupendous.
Parenting isn’t new, but it shocks me daily how much we marvel at our little girl as if we’re the first parents to exist. I wonder how the generations that came before us have kept such a tight lid on this club – raising children. Yeah, it is hard and there are moments of frustration and tears, but it is amazing and worth every moment. Just this weekend I caught Barry gazing at Maggie and the look on his face was so full of love and admiration…..a father to his daughter. Just thinking about it now brings swirls in my tummy and tears to my eyes.
“Parenting isn’t new, but it shocks me daily how much we marvel at our little girl as if we’re the first parents to exist. I wonder how the generations that came before us have kept such a tight lid on this club – raising children.”
Totally. You said it. We’ve thought the same thing a zillion times.