September 2003
Okay, I'm having one of those mom moments when I cannot believe, with
everything in me, that not only am I a mother of two, but time has moved by
so quickly and without my permission to find that those two precious babies
of mine are going into first grade and kindergarten already. I refuse to
believe it actually. It just seems wrong.
Where did those days go of not being able to catch even two consecutive
hours of sleep? Of nursing? Of just staring at my babies sleeping? Of
being so excited when they could finally eat cheerios?! The first tooth?
The first step? The first word? Or of that first playgroup, though knowing
full well the social interaction that I claimed I was instilling into my
children was for me way more than for them? Of my first look into the
brilliance of Barney? Of moving my children up the ranks in their Sunday
school classes? The first days of preschool? Or their first friends?
And now, I have talking, walking, thinking, praying, running, fully
functioning children. But there are still so many firsts. I don't have to
let go of that quite yet. Like uninitiated 'I love you's'. And first
prayers that they come up with. And first discussions about something other
than them. (They're beginning to understand that when they leave the room,
the world does not get sucked into some planetary black hole.)
I told my Sara the other day how desperately I wanted her to stay
6-&-1/2.because 7 just seems too grown up for me. She said she understood
how I felt, but she just had to keep growing. And she's right. They do.
I
can't hold them back. And I guess, really, when it comes down to it, I don'
t want to hold them back. I mean, if this is how amazing they both are at
6-&-1/2 and 5, I can't wait to see how they turn out along the way.
About the author:
Ó Elisabeth K.
Corcoran, 2003
Elisabeth K. Corcoran is the author of Calm in My Chaos: Encouragement for a
Mom's Weary Soul. She is wife to Kevin, and mom to Sara, 6-&-1/2, and Jack,
5. Her passion is encouraging women and she fulfills that through heading
up the Women's Ministries at Blackberry Creek Community Church in Aurora, IL
and writing as much as she can. Calm in My Chaos (2001) can be purchased
directly through her publisher, Kregel Publications at #1-888-644-0500 or
www.kregel.com, at amazon.com, or through your local
Christian bookstore.
This column is original and not excerpted from her book.
Calm in My Chaos:
Encouragement for a Mom's Weary Soul
by Elisabeth K. Corcoran Paperback - 176 pages (February 2001)
Kregel Publications; ISBN: 0825423880 ;