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Our neighbor and good friend Merlinda gave me the advice when I was pregnant to savor each moment in our child’s life. She said she spent too much energy wishing the time away (such as wanting to get past the morning sickess, yearning for the first full night’s sleep, looking forward to that last diaper change, etc.) that she did’t really get a chance to fully enjoy everything along the way. I’ve taken these words to heart and have remembered them at every situation from the precious sound of Johnathan’s new “words” and funny faces to the heart wrenching sound of his cries.
Ben and I recently fellowshiped with a couple who were married at the same age we were and had kids shortly after. I watched them sit on our couch and shake their heads at how the last twenty-eight years of their lives since their wedding day has slipped out from under their feet. I heard it a countless number of times as a child from grown-ups: “Time goes by so fast,” and “I can’t believe it’s almost Christmas time again,” when a homeworkless summer seemed to me lifetimes away. As an adult I understand, and so much more even now as a parent. Ji has changed so much and I can’t belive it has been five months, and the leaves are falling again already.
I look at John Issac’s cute little cubby face and think to myself some day this kid is going to be a great man with a wife and kids of his own. I think about what our conversations will be like when he is a teenager and I daydream about dancing about in the living room with him as a toddler… and maybe with a new baby in my arms. I think about these possible future happenings and know that when I am there I will be thinking back to the time that is now. I will reflect on how I felt at his birth, the way Ben looked holding his newborn baby in the moonlight and the sound of all those tiny sneezes, coughs and hiccups. I will think about how beautiful his first smile was, the thunder in his underpants and his fascination with the window blinds. I will remember how he repeatedly stuck his fingers in his mouth even after a self induced gag and the sleepy kackle he made just before signing off for the night… if I remember to revel in each of those moments.