You know I often sit and think about that oh so wonderful fraise, "Your gonna miss this". I think about it as I run crazy behind my kids cleaning up their messes. I think about it as I sit and witness my husband sleep for hours and hours a day! ( No really! He sleeps almost as much as I am awake during the day! lol) I think about it as I dream of days when my house will stay clean and I will sit comfy on the couch reading, knitting, or relaxing till my hearts content. Am I REALLY "Gonna miss this"? Maybe. Maybe not.
I'll tell you what I will miss. I'll miss my kids hugs and kisses until my hearts content! I'll miss the sound of laughter coming from their bedrooms as they play "teacher", "house", or "tea party". I won't miss the fight that follows and the endless fit that seems to last the rest of the day when I ask them to clean up the mess they made playing all of those wonderful games! I will miss the overflowing amounts of art and color pages brought to me daily, I will in no way miss the big spot of red crayola crayon I have to scrub, scrub and scrub again off my tile floor! Most of all, I will absolutely in every way possible miss the beautiful, happy, joyful faces that are the reasons for those messes!
So I think what it really is, what I will feel or miss most of all when its all said and done, as I sit there in my quiet, clean house, curled up on my couch enjoying my current read. I will more then likely glance down at that tile where I scrubbed, scrubbed and scrubbed some more and it will bring back the flooding memories of my wonderful, joyful, happy children and it will hit me. I will miss THEM in every way! Then I will probably think to myself, "Ill take that crayon back now" and gladly scrub scrub and scrub some more if I could just have one more squishy, slobbery, wet kiss and big bear hug from that beautiful face! I will! I will miss this!!
LT
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