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This is not mine— someone sent it to me on FB. We have so many new moms and families with small kids on FS that I thought I would post this. I cannot even tell you how true this is—- ask your own parents. I have two daughters. They were just born a couple years ago but somehow I turned around for just a minute and they are 43 and 51. How does that even happen? I think the author is Cassie Gottula Shaw.
"Will you play with me, Mama?"
I've always known a day will come when he won't even ask anymore. But a few days ago, when he asked me to play, something in my heart told me to stop for a second. To take in the moment. To hear what he was asking. To watch what he was doing. And to memorize it all...because it won't be this way much longer.
So quickly I studied the bridge of his nose and his soft, perfect skin.
The joy in his smile — a smile that hasn’t been wounded by the world just yet.
The sound of his voice.
And the plea in it. Almost asking, “Mama, do you have enough time for me?”
And it's all changing so quickly... faster than I ever would have expected. I’m telling you, I blinked — I BLINKED — and this child turned five.
I thought of all the moments gone by — of baby coos and sweet stumbles and the first time he recited the alphabet — and I knew this, too, was soon to be a memory.
So I put aside what I was doing, and I played.
And I desperately hope I'll take the time to play tomorrow...
...if I still have the chance.
Diet Calendar Entries for 27 April 2021:
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1186 kcal
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Fat: 57.96g | Prot: 49.23g | Carb: 125.93g.
Breakfast: Heritage beans, Dave's Killer Bread Thin-Sliced Good Seed Organic Bread, Aqua de Jamaica (hibiscus ice tea), Maxwell House International Cafe Orange, Sarabeth's Orange Apricot Marmalade, Fried Egg, Trader Joe's Beef Filet Mignon. Lunch: Just Hemp Hulled Hemp Seeds, Sweet Heart Milled Chia Seeds, Tru-Nut Powdered Peanut Butter, Wheat Montana Milled Flax Seed, Trader Joe's Pomegranate Seeds, Ranch Granola, Traditional Plain Greek Yogurt, Frozen Blueberries. Dinner: Kraft Miracle Whip Dressing, Best Foods Real Mayonnaise, Fresh Gourmet Sliced Almonds Toasted, Green Summer Squash, Fresh Express Cole Slaw Mix, Kohlrabi, Cuties Mandarin Orange, Honeycrisp Apples, Wild Planet Wild Sardines in Olive Oil & Lemon. more...
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1325 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 1 hour, Resting - 15 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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Today was my baby’s first day in daycare, for me to go go back to work, and My hormones are all over the place with the breastfeeding... so I may have cried a bit.
27 Apr 21 by member: anacet
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With my first one I was a single mom with a sick kid and I literally worked 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for over a year to keep up with her medical bills. She was 2 at the time. She was essentially raised by the babysitter or I took her to work with me— she slept in a n empty ICU bed or in a jail cell. Across from my unit. I missed it all. Those were the days that insurance, even employer insurance could decide to not insure your child if they had a pre-existing condition. Those were the GOOD OLD DAYS that so many want to go back to. There was a lot that was not good about those days.. I digress. Enjoy your kids, play with them, spend non TV watching time with them. IT goes fast
27 Apr 21 by member: Kenna Morton
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I just saw this, Kenna. It is so good. When our youngest, a nearly two year old, came home to be our son, our oldest of five was barely 8. It was really really hard, but there are ways I wish I could go back to hold each of those "babies" and for a moment not worry about anything but loving them in the simple way children need. You had such a struggle, and I can't imagine all you went through during those hard days. I too am forever grateful for the health care we now have that makes it more possible to help our kids without living in constant fear about the next medical bill that will devistate. We too had those days not even so long ago.
29 Apr 21 by member: melissatwa
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Oh I know Melissatwa— it is sad.
29 Apr 21 by member: Kenna Morton
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I’m Spanish and we have universal healthcare there. Doctors, diagnostic tests, expensive treatments, I took everything for granted. Until I met my american husband, and more directly until I moved here, I knew nothing about this system. It still puzzles me so much, but I’m happy to hear that it is improving. My baby spend 1 week in the NICU when she was born, we can only manage because we had good insurance.
30 Apr 21 by member: anacet
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