Nostalgia

Recently Son #1's show and tell topic was 'When I was a baby'. As we flicked through the photos he wanted to print to show his class, I couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic. So cute. So squidgy. Perhaps heightening my nostalgia was a phone call the previous day from a very good friend who shared that her family was to grow once more. I couldn't be happier for her! But that didn't stop this mummy from feeling a little green-eyed upon hearing such exciting news. A brand-new, unique person, created for a purpose will soon be entering the world! How could you not want one of those?

And then Son #2 caught a cold. Nothing terrible, but enough to disturb his sleep (and therefore mine). As I rocked him throughout the night for a few nights, sleep deprivation replaced nostalgia. After only a few short years, it has become easy to forget the sleepless nights, difficult feeds and screams - oh the screams - of an unsettled baby that filled the space from one cute and squidgy photo opportunity to another.

YES! If I had the chance to do it all again, I would! In a heartbeat! But now, as our family circle is complete, I can look back on my children's babyhood's with nostalgia - yes, but mainly contentment. Though I would never have believed it, my children (and their parents) do sleep through most nights now. All three children have been fed and watered everyday of their lives. They have grown, maybe not on the correct percentile curve, but grown they have. They crawled when they were ready and not because their parents lined muffins in front of them for encouragement because everyone else thought they'd be mobile by now, and not a moment before. At the right time, they walked. And talked. And now, I have the photos to prove it.

So dear friend, and all those expecting beautiful bundles of perfection, you have my sincere congratulations! Enjoy! Take lots of photos, for one day soon, though you may not believe it now, you too will be on the other side feeling a little better rested, a little nostalgic and perhaps, just perhaps, feeling ready to do it all again. And then your child will get a cold.

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