Next Chapter continued..... When our oldest son was first born, I started a journal, entitled, “ So, What have you been doing lately ?”, in an effort to capture his “ firsts ” of everything. Initially, it was a daily ritual as everyday brought truly new developments. Nothing was too mundane to be included - everything from his facial expressions to his body movements, to his mumbles of words, to his sleeping patterns . I wrote and wrote and wrote, capturing every detail - his first foods, his first step, his first haircut, and, yes, even his first poop in the potty - worrying that I would miss something that was too precious to ever forget. We took scores and scores of pictures, capturing the mood of the moment. I continued writing through the birth of our second son, but the “entries” and the pictures became further and further separated by exhaustion, lack of time and lack of desire. We always said it was good that we didn’t have a third child as the poor thing would have no ...
Everyone goes through "stages" or "chapters' in their lives, whether its wanting to move out of the city and buy a farm, or learn to roller blade and lose those unwanted pounds, or join a book club or bridge club and become more "rounded", or sign up for that design class you were always sorry you didn't pursue. Sometimes these stages present themselves without effort and we consider it "meant to be". And yet sometimes it just HAS to be...