Treasure the doing a little more...

I was just thinking tonight about how precious this time in my life is. I just stumbled across a quote from Elder Ballard's last conference address. He quoted Anna Quindlen who 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).

Yes, I am going to treasure the doing a little more. I am going to treasure the little hugs, kisses and conversations I share with my babies. I will be okay if toys are everywhere, but we are having fun together. I will just enjoy being a mother.