I loved your thoughts! Thanks for sharing. I also have felt the way you do now. I love that everyday we get to be better then the day before to our children. If we have a bad day we have tomorrow to make it better.

I think I appreciate my kids the most when they are sleeping and look so innocent and sweet and cling to me as i hold them.  In those moments I feel I am the luckiest woman in the world!  I loved your post!  You son is lucky to have you!

This is beautiful. My son turns one on Monday and I am being reminded of such things now. When he couldn't hardly open his eyes, or hold up his head. When we used to nap together on the couch cuz I was so tired I could barely keep my eyes open. And I always ask "Where did the past year go?"  Or when I feel like I haven't accomplished anything this year I remind myself, "I spent the last year RAISING MY SON." It's a hard job but he is my world and so special to me! I really try to cherish every moment for I feel them slipping through my fingers like sand.

I always tell my son "I am so lucky to have you!" My son is an absolute doll, he is so sweet and pleasant *most* of the time.

Quoting momof2little1s:

I think I appreciate my kids the most when they are sleeping and look so innocent and sweet and cling to me as i hold them.  In those moments I feel I am the luckiest woman in the world!  I loved your post!  You son is lucky to have you!

tHIS MADE ME CRY!My son turned 18yrs old in june and so many time's i wished there were thing's i could change!like letting him play in mud puddles after a storm,go outside on a cold day even with a runny nose,listening to him more instead of a stupid tv show.So many thing's i did wrong!I am 42yrs old and almost 5mos pregnant and i will do thing's so different!It is a precious boy and i will cherish it all as this will be my last baby.I will be much more patient and will not rush this one to each milestone.I thank GOD for blessing me with 1more baby and 1 more chance at being a mother!They told me i would never get preggo cause of my age and 8 fibroid's.God showed them otherwise!We are both doing fine!GOD is GREAT!!

thanx for sharing!  motherhood is such a blessing and it's the MOST wonderful thing in the world!!!  i kow exacctly how you feel.  but sometimes we just have to let it out, and sometimes we just cant help hurting the ones we love the most.  it's so wonderful just to hear that when we get our little ones in trouble, they can always find it in their hearts to forgive us.  and i think that that is something that us as grown-ups have forgotten to do.  we need to learn to forgive one another.  i think that is a real big lesson in itself.  today, me and dh plan on making it my son's day.  we will be taking him to chuck e cheeses!!!!  i'm excited!  lol  i think that this post is awsome, and i feel like we all should tribute this day to our children!  thanx for the insperation!

WOW.. I loved your thoughts... I was just telling my mom this morning that I don't know why my son has to sleep on the same pillow right next to me when there is so much bed, then I thought I should just take the time to snuggle with him.  He just turned 4 and always seems to make it to my bed in the middle of the night.  So I understand completely where you are coming from.

Thank you sooooo much for this post.  I realized how lucky I was to be Blessed with my sons, I MEAN REALLY REALIZED JUST HOW BLESSED I AM, when they both read a book by themselves for the first time...I started to cry thinking no matter how aggravated or what my day was like, or what the health crises might have been, MY SON CAN READ AND COMPREHEND.  This just opened up their World to Life.  My sons are almost 18 and 15 1/2 and when I look at them I know that they have exceeded EVERYTHING I could have EVER imagined or wished for them now at these ages. (I actually realized this 3 years ago)..THANK YOU LORD.  Their lives will ONLY get so much better from here..All the pain my Mother and Grandmother had in their lives and the drama and pain I have experienced ends with me...No matter what happens, I know in my heart I am Blessed and my sons are now Men, very awesome, likable, respectable Men.  The tools I have given them, they have learned to use and apply it to their lives in ways I could have never imagined.  I spend my life raising them with the constant fear that their lives would be as cursed as mine but my Sons have shown me that I NEVER NEEDED TO WORRY.  I am SOOOOO LUCKY but I needed this reminder to STILL be grateful today.....THANK YOU!

I just loved this post!  I think about things like this all the time.  I have a 3 1/2 year old and a 20 month old.  We went to Eat N Park last night and just laughed our heads off when my sons licked the faces off their cookies and their noses were orange and purple from the icing.  It's moments like these when we feel blessed to have these wonderful children in our lives.  Have a blessed day!

I understand what you are saying and feeling.  I turned 40 a few months after having my son and he is the world to me!  I am able to re-do all the things I did as a child and some of those things I never got to do.  I just love taking him to the park, seeing him try new things for the first time, going to the kid movies and having him ask questions like "what you making mom?"  Children are precious gifts that not all get to have, they love you unconditionally and as parents we should love them and support them the best we can.