As the title would suggest, I am finding it hard to say good-bye. Good-bye to what you might ask? Well, my baby girl is growing up. She just turned 10 months old and growing like a weed. So now I am left with having to go through the house and decide what things we no longer need and get rid of them. That almost sounds so harsh. As I am going about and collecting the bouncy seat, the walker and exersaucer, the swing and jump-a-roo, the this and thats...... Then making a listing on Craigslist, for some other parent, who in turn will get to make memories with their child. I am getting a bit sentimental and emotional about all of it. Never again will my daughter ever be this small again. All I have to remind me are pictures and my memories (until old age takes them). I am excited at the prospect that we get to move on to bigger and better things, but yet again, can I just enjoy her being this small for a little while longer? It just seems like yesterday I was pregnant with her, waiting with anticipation for her arrival. Then meeting my beautiful daughter early in the morning on the day she chose to be born. What a blessing from God she has been. Even though there were some rough spots along the way, I look back and just sigh because those are moments in time frozen forever. She is her own little person with so much to offer the future. Everyday it seems like she has achieved so many milestones and is sure to be walking any day now, and the older she gets the cuter she becomes. Soon we will be celebrating her first birthday and I'm sure will aquire even more stuff to replace the old stuff that I am letting go.
Letting go, that seems like something as parents we have difficulty doing at times. But time moves on and so must we.
Wait until May 0f 2010 when I have my firstborn graduate from high school, I'm sure I will be a complete mess!
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