Just be.....

I just read this following paragraph on a blog that I follow daily. She was trying to put her 9 month old to bed (who usually just laid down and fell asleep) and he was crying and crying so she was 'forced' to pick him up and rock him to sleep even though she had plans to leave for dessert with a friend that night.


I am a doer. I know that I'll never be the kind of mother who is just with her kids, not easily. I spend a lot of my day trying to carve out a little time for myself. That's okay. I'm not going to add that to my huge mental list of mothering deficiencies. It's the way that I am. I have to be reminded and reminded to treasure, cherish, revel, breathe. To just be with them. Because just being under him in the rocking chair meant every thing to him. Clean bathrooms and organized pictures mean next to nothing.

Don't think I could have said it any better. Here's to my resolution to focus on the 'now' not 'later.'