I am still working on my Conference isssue from April. I know- kind of behind. As I was reading, I came across a quote by Anna Quindlen. Elder M. Russell Ballard relates her thoughts in his talk:
"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one 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."
Since Reading that thought, I have come to realize how quickly the time REALLY goes by! If you stop and think about it, we really only have them around for five years. They go of to school and they are at school longer than they are at home (at least in the waking hours.) How lucky we are to have these little ones. They are so special, and teach us so much!
