We'll Miss These Days
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, May 21, 2010 10:14 PM
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My youngest sibling is about to graduate from high school, and he’ll be going away to college this fall. My parents are about to be empty-nesters. Compared to a decade ago, their house seems quiet these days.
I, on the other hand, cannot go to the bathroom without a child pounding on the door.
Parenting young children is physically demanding, and life is busy for us. I always say that I bend over to pick up something from the floor a hundred times a day… but actually, I think that might be an underestimate.
Still, life with our little ones is full of joy. At least a few times every day I find myself stepping back from a scene and thinking, someday, when I’m no longer parenting young children, I’m going to miss this.
Tonight it was nearing bedtime. Camilla and I were tidying the playroom. Blaise found us, and soon he was careening around the room, chasing a big plastic sphere and shouting his new word. “Bah! Bah!” He’d yell it and then grin, looking to us for applause.
Camilla found a spoon and offered it to him, “Blaise, can you say ‘spoon’?”
He looked at her, then turned around and ran after his ball.
“Bah!”
“Can you say ‘spoon’?”
Grin. “Bah!”
“Come on, Blaise! ‘Spoon’!”
“Bah!” He smacked the object in question happily. And despite her brother’s resistance to her attempts to improve his vocabulary, Camilla smiled back at him and gave him the spoon anyway.
Someday my husband and I will be like my parents, with an empty nest. We’ll enjoy quiet evenings and the ability to go out to dinner on a Tuesday if we choose. That will be great, but I bet we will miss these busy, sweet days of raising young children.
So I’m glad we’re enjoying them now.
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