Remember When....

This video was taken in Dec. 2008. Emily was Caleb's age at the time. I look back and see how much she has grown-up. It makes me sad!! Last night after I watched this I sat here and thought about all the times that I forget to let my kids be little. I have to remember that when my kids are grown and moved away I am not going to sit around and think "Gee, I wish I would have cleaned my house more!" I know I will wish I would have spent more time building forts, playing barbies, reading books to them, singing songs and being silly with my kids. I am so fortunate that I get to stay at home with my kids and it is sometimes hard to remember that they will only be once.

Awhile ago I posted this poem and I love it and it is a good reminder to me of the joys of motherhood.


Song for a Fifth Child

Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth
empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
hang out the washing and butter the bread,
sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
and out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
but I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.


by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

President Monson gave us some great coucil:
"I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by as you plan for that illusive and nonexistent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find joy in the journey—now."

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you’ve collected a lot of empty yesterdays.”

Now I better go use my imagination, I have a whole lot of playing to do today!