There Will Be Time For That

by | Sep 3, 2010 | 0 comments

Staying home with Audrey was a choice I had made.  I felt that no one could care for you or cherish you better than I could, and I loved teaching you things and I loved knowing it was the first time you were doing something instead of wondering if you’d already done it ten times at daycare.

But- for any woman in the modern world- who has gone through years of education and serious heart probing trying to figure out what she wants to do in life- and then finds herself changing diapers, having snack time and singing “The Wheels on the Bus”- it is a sacrifice.  It was hard for me to be 100% there because I started to feel that I was supposed to be doing something more.  I should be doing something creative like Dan who is going after his dreams- I thought.  Mothering is pretty creative from the start obviously- creation of a new life- but still I had that nagging.  But at some point, I decided that Audrey was going to grow up very quickly and this was not forever.  If I spent her childhood feeling I should be doing something else, I would miss them both.  So- it was best to put that aside for now and be 100% in this season of mothering.  There would be time for other things later.

Now I need that frame of thought more than ever.  I hope I can leave the grief for later and give her my 100% for just a morning or an afternoon.  Because she is still growing very quickly.  Dan- you’d be simply amazed to hear her speak.  I don’t want to miss this.  There will be time for grieving- maybe while she naps or in the evening after she’s stopped mumbling and peacefully sleeps in her darkened room.  Then, there will be time for that.

JAC

September 3, 2010

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