Time Passes By--Carpe Diem

I was looking at old photo of my 3 year-old son when he was months old. I just shook my head in amazement at how green I really was at being a mother (even though I was raising 3 step-children). I also realized how the time flew by. Zoomed by is more like it. Where did the day go when I was noticing how I could be in Sigorney Weaver's movie "Alien". When my baby would move in my tummy, his little hand would print onto my stomach like the aliens in the movie. I thought about how I couldn't remember holding him as a newborn. Don't get me wrong, I clearly have the images in my head of holding him at 3am in the dark. BUt what I mean when I say "remember" is that I can't sensory memory remember those intimate moments. Part of my forgetting can be attributed to my being emotionally detached from him at times because I was emotionally attached to other matters (which, in hindsight, was nothing of a matter). I won't get those moments back...ever. Don't do what I did with your children. Time passes by quickly; take hold of the current moment and when you're done holding on to it, hold on for 5 more minutes (as my son says when I am asking him to stop what he is engaged in at the present to do something else). These moments are priceless; Seize them.

Blessings,
Aurellia