Where Does Time Go?
Sleepless nights, never-ending laundry, learning to work with one hand tied behind your back (or using it hold a baby on your hip). Then they sleep through the night, learn to do their own laundry, and add two hands to the kitchen instead of handicap one. After years of diapers, baths, doctors, dentists, noses, laundry, chores, summer camps, play groups, library runs, school programs, and a seemingly limitless list of tasks and responsibilities associated with motherhood and parenting, it's over. Well, maybe not over, but things are definitely changing. Now, Patrick blows his own nose, does his own laundry, and drives himself to the dentist. One thing that hasn't changed? He still likes to have lobster for his birthday dinner. One of my earliest pictures of him helping to prepare lobster was when he was not quite six years old. I don't think this was a birthday dinner, but it was the beginning of a long tradition. Lobster dinner - 2006 Lobster Birth