Present In the Moment

Tomorrow will mark the eighteenth week of life for my little buglet.  (My dad always used to call us kids "buglet" when were small.  I'm pretty darn sure it's not a word in most people's vocabulary, but for me it's a sweet morsel from my childhood.)  Anyway, tomorrow is also the completion of the first eighteen weeks of my newest career... motherhood... and it's going entirely too fast!  If I could slow it down or go back to the beginning long enough to capture EVERY SINGLE MOMENT on video, or in writing, or in a photograph I absolutely, positively would do it.  I would.  But, alas... I cannot.  From this point forward I can only hope to freeze as many moments as I can through photographs, words, and video so that I can revisit them and be "present in the moment" again and again.

As a mother, there are so many pearls to enjoy, so much to laugh at, much to kiss and adore.  I'm sure that as life gets busier and other buglets come to our home it will get harder and harder to love every moment as I do now, but that is my goal, my focus.  Emily Halverson talks about this in her essay Watch With Me, from the book The Mother In Me.  I love how she puts it:  

"Who--- when they've slowed down enough and have come outside of themselves enough--- could not enjoy a child?  This is the surest way I know of enjoying motherhood--- ENJOYING my children.  Taking the time and learning the skill of being present in the moment." 

This is my place to share the daily pearls I am blessed enough to receive as a mother, and practice the skill of being "present in the moment" with my Little Stinker Bug.