Living in the moment!

"Author Anna Quindlen reminds us not to rush past the fleeting moments. She said: “The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less”(Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11).


With so much happening as we are getting our house unpacked, I started to notice that every time I went to open a new box and start on a new little project, Mason would run up to me screaming "HELP! HELP! MOMMY! HELP!" I realized that I wasn't giving him enough of my attention and he was now trying in desperation to get any attention of mine he could get. I've found him acting up and acting out a little bit more, I'm sure to try and get whatever he could from me whether it be good or bad.

This morning I came across this quote again, and I decided that today I was going to live more in the little moments as they came up and not be in such a hurry to move onto the next box, or the next thing that needs to get done. I think Mason will appreciate having his mommy back again. So we're off to go play at the park and set up some choo-choo trains.