I started my second and last maternity leave.
I am having a lazy Sunday, bogged down with a cold, compliments of Hubs when it struck me. I have already been off for one whole year.
How can that be?? Wasn't it just yeasterday that I was moaning and groaning about my stoopid sciatic nerve issue?? That I couldn't take M for a walk longer than 30 minutes because I physically just couldn't do it? That I was building a bed for myself at the base of the stairs at 7:00am in the mornings because I wanted to snooze longer and I was baracading the exit for M should he try to escape?
Seriously?
Wasn't it just yesterday that a size three didn't fit M and now in two week from today he will turn three and being wearing a size four in some things?
I'm sure it was just yesterday that I was sitting in my Dr. office and he was giving me the details of my schedule c-section. And I know that it wasn't that long ago that I walked up to the desk in Labour and Delivery at the hospital and ordered up one baby boy.
Wasn't it?
It couldn't possibly be that my baby is going to be one in five weeks.
And I am certain that I am not ready to return to work in five weeks.
Time is once again not on my side.
My babies are growing, their personalities maturing into little people that I could never, ever do without.
It doesn't stop me from missing the smallness though. I can't even begin to describe that feeling when your newborn baby is placed into your arms for the very first time.
I remember it for both of them like it was yesterday.
Happy Sunday.
What sweet thoughts. It is truly amazing how quickly it goes. If it's possible, the old they get, the faster time goes by. Maybe it's because we're getting older also. Cherish your little ones. Things will change in five weeks, but they'll still be yours to enjoy every day.
ReplyDeleteThat first year flies, doesn't it? When I held my second daughter in the labor/delivery room I wanted to just stay there. I knew she'd be running off in the opposite direction before I was ready.
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ReplyDeleteOh, I recognize this feeling so well. You just want to hang on to the moments when they were so small...((hugs))
ReplyDeleteThat first birthday is so bittersweet, isn't it? Time will only start flying faster from here. I have the exact same sentiments, but my first "baby" is going to be nine in June. Yikes.
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