They Never Get Easier...

 

 

They never get easier, the Goodbyes

The Hellos, and especially the In-Betweens, that's what we live for

That's the good stuff

 

The long walks to get you to nap, and reading your favorite books over and over

Your first taste of solids and discovering there is food beyond milk -

Learning avocados are a 'no' but oatmeal gets a big 'yes'

The first words, and shaky first steps

Trips to the park and collecting every rock by the side of the road

Trains, trains, everywhere trains

Coloring outside the lines

Squealing as we run through the rain

Snuggles and cuddles and your hands in mine

All the little moments that add up to big memories

 

Childcare is a selfless act

An art, a calling, and anything but a 'job'

It's early mornings and late nights

With no thoughts of 'getting ahead'

To care for another, despite no linked DNA

Is truly an act of love

 

It's knowing that you may not be remembered,

But you will always remember

It's the way you made a difference in their life,

And the difference they made in yours

 

It starts slowly at first,

The way those little hands make prints on your heart

But they become permanent over time

And with every new child, your heart accommodates more

 

But babies grow up

And become children who go to school

To learn and grow

And become who they were meant to be

 

And so we say our Goodbyes

But they never gets easier...

 

 

“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” ~ Forest E. Witcraft

 

 

 

Emotional week for me.  That is all for now.

 

Happy Weekend to you all.