I love having all three kids home and under one roof. As Cara prepares to graduate from college and start real life....I know that these times will become fewer and fewer. There is something so comforting to me to have all my babies in the same place at the same time. If there is no bickering, it's even better!
They are each such miracles to me. They have each been a challenge to raise, each in their own way....but sometimes I just look at them when they are talking, and I realize that I am not really hearing them...because I am looking at who they are....all the gifts and promise and potential they possess. They are each their own unique person, yet a common thread runs through them...the thread that connects us all. I am always in awe of them. Make no mistake, I might feel like eating those words as I struggle to get Alex to bed at a decent hour tonight. But I will look past those unimportant events and realize what blessings I have been given. I am thankful for them and proud of the people they are growing into.
There will be good times, bad times, nerve wracking times, funny times, sad times, anxious times. That is what life is made of, I am learning....and I have learned that the bad times help you appreciate the good times even more, and not take them for granted. If I had it all to do again....I probably wouldn't change a thing...because I can not imagine my life without any of them. We never know what tomorrow brings. So I will go downstairs and sit with them tonight...and thank God for blessing me with such amazing people as my kids.
"You are the trip I did not take, you are the pearls I could not buy,
You are my blue Italian lake, You are my piece of foreign sky,
You are my Honolulu moon, you are the book I did not write,
You are my heart's unuttered tune, you are a candle in my night
You are the flower beneath the snow, in my dark sky a bit of blue,
Answering disappointment's blow with "I am happy, I have you!"
~ Anne Campbell
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