It's the little things....

As my Due date is vastly approaching, I get a little freaked out from time to time about how I will be able to handle 3 kiddos!! yikes!! I am typically all over the place and little scatter brained and wonder how it will affect the outcome of parenting three children all at once. I am at a place in my life right now where perfecting my motherhood skills are extremely important to me...not that they weren't before, but there was a lot of room for improvement. I let a few things get in the way of giving my children the time they deserved from me..ie..work..school..etc. Bottom line is that it had to be done. I don't regret a thing because everything I ever did I did for them; for my family.
This pregnancy is a very special pregnancy. All the others were equally as special, but as the years go by you start to realize many things. I find myself wanting to slow down a bit more in life even if I have to cut back on the things that "may seem so dreadfully important" which they really aren't...at all.. and enjoy the little things. The small things. The things that are in between. The things that make me laugh and the things that make me cry. Because I know well enough now that the little things are so important... "dreadfully important". As a parent you can try to come close to being perfect, but you won't be perfect. Not even an inch of perfection comes into play...(and if you think you are please write a book or do a workshop about it because I and other parent's out there like me would definitely be interested in learning how you got there..... really). In all seriousness though, perfection come in the eyes of my children I believe personally. They are the only ones that count...

This post is important to me because as I sat there worried and afraid about being a parent again.. I had a change of view. I said to myself "why am I so worried? this is not the first time" When I stopped worrying, I was able to see all the "little things" I had been missing. The things I once thought were a task now became the things I do because I love to do them... from the bottom of my heart, and do them without asking for anything in return. (well maybe for some smiles).



and while all this was going on...