A Heavy Dose of Perspective

I think all this through with a heavy dose of excitement for the future as well as deep-thoughts from the soul of a mom who just said goodbye to her son who heads off to his first year in college.

We have perspective in this house.
From toddler to Freshman in college and grades in between.
As a young mom I didn’t understand moms that told me “I should treasure the first six months of my  baby’s life”.  The colic, the screaming, the inability to communicate, the lack of sleep, the poopy diapers.  I hated it all!  The minutes can be so agonizingly slow but the moments, yes the moments, are gone in a flash.  Funny how I /so/ understood that with Baby *L*, now two years old.  Let me go on to say: This goes for all ages; it is the mantra of a mom, from babies to grade school to the dreaded growing into their own skin teenage years.