Glimpse into time...

This morning I put Hadley on the couch next to Hayden while I made Hudson his ever important "hot chocolate milk."  (I use quotations because his milk is neither hot or very chocolaty, but that is what he calls it, so we go with that.) When I came back, I saw that Hayden had shared his blanket with his sister and they were both just laying there watching TV together in silence.
 
I looked at them and just stared.  It was as if I saw them fifteen years in the future, as teenagers, just lounging around.  It made my heart hurt way that screamed, "DON'T HURRY THE DAYS!  THEY WILL PASS FAST ENOUGH!".  The realization that time is going to fly by struck me like lightening.  My eyes were opened, if only for a moment, to the importance of trying really hard to enjoy the moments of motherhood.  Yes, it is hard to enjoy ALL of it (and I am not saying we should), but the time goes by far too fast to get caught up in all the hard parts.  I want to enjoy it, each and every day for what it is.  Because in a flash, they are going to be too cool for me, too busy for me and rude in a teenager sort of way.

For right now though, they are still my babies.  I am going to soak that in as much as humanly possible and store as many memories as my heart and brain can manage.  I want to remember them, just as they are now, MY little ducks, MY babies.