Reflecting on Motherhood

When they're babies and you've had countless sleepless nights, you think to yourself "when they're older, it will get easier." Then you blink and they're in school. You volunteer for the PTA and collect box tops, soup can labels and other fundraising points until your head explodes! You volunteer to help work the book fairs, class trips, gift shops, and other special events. You attend all the class plays, music concerts and meet the teacher nights. You go shopping at 10pm for poster board for a project you only found out about at the last minute. Then you blink and they're teenagers. They want to drive, and date and don't want to be seen with you. Their homework is more difficult and you scramble to help them with trigonometry that you haven't done in 20 years! You lose sleep filling out college applications and waiting for responses. Then you blink and they're all grown up. We pour our hearts and souls into our children. Once they move out on their own we reflect back to their childhood and would give anything to just hold that precious little baby once more - lost sleep and all!