Letters to Maddie: Babies don’t keep.
Little Maddie,
You are already over two weeks old and I can already feel the time slipping by. Each day melds so easily into the next, each 3am feeding indistinguishable from the 3am of the previous day. You are more and more alert each and every day, your blue eyes have given way to a deep brown, and your face changes by the minute. It’s hard to believe it’s been two and a half weeks since laboring in the hospital, it seems like only yesterday we brought you home.
There are many things we cannot wait to see in you: your first smile, your first words, your first steps… but for now, I am happy you are my little newborn, helpless and dependent, and using your big brown eyes to stare up at me as we snuggle at 3am.
I hope that my child, looking back on today
Will remember a mother who had time to play;
Because children grow up while you’re not looking,
There are years ahead for cleaning and cooking.
So, quiet now cobwebs, dust go to sleep.
I’m nursing my baby, and babies don’t keep.
-Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
Love,
Mom
Hey Nicky,
Congrats, she is absolutely beautiful!! She looks very alert! I just wanted to tell you that I love that poem as well and have made it my motto as a mother. I, too, ate up every second in the middle of the night while nursing my kids. I try to remember every single day that no household chore is ever more important than quality time spent with my children. My main goal each and every day is to take the time to stop what I’m doing to look at a work of art, to wrestle on the floor, or to sing a song. I can tell you will be that kind of mother too! Being a mother is so much fun!! We’re all so happy for you
) Love, Jeff, Tricia, Charlie and Claire
Make sure to tell Mark congrats too!!!