Dear Gabriel,
How are the holidays just around the corner again? I have no idea how that happened. Time keeps getting faster and faster and faster and faster! You are already a YEAR old. Your cute personality is coming out more rapidly each day. It just reminds me to soak in every moment with you at this stage in your life because it is going to be gone in a blink of an eye.
I wonder how you are going to remember the moments of your life... Your time passing? Every family and every parent has quirks. It is just how it is. There are going to be things about me that drive you crazy as your mom. There are going to be things about your dad that inevitably you are going to want to be like (hopefully :-). It is just amazing to think that as time is passing... you are developing into YOU... into your person.
How humbling it is to be a parent. You are going to be part me, part your dad and part of everything else you allow to influence you in your life, including the natural gifts you came to this world with. Every time a minute passes, it is a minute that will be gone forever, and hopefully means that you and I have learned valuable lessons from one another.
I love you,
Your Mom
Andrea...I was thinking about this in the car today! I was looking at all the leaves and I just can't believe that halloween is now over. I feel like it was just BARELY the holidays two seconds ago. It's almost like I am not even excited for the holidays because I feel like they just barely happened. I wish time would slow down just a little bit. I was really wondering and wanting to blog about this and see if everyone else feels the same or if it is just me?????
ReplyDeleteI think so many people feel the same way, I have had so many people tell me about reading this and feeling it. Crazy!
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