The boys are with my husband and Grace and I are home alone with Caleb. We are under strict orders not to go shopping. No need to worry, I am not about to spend precious quality time in a mall! However, we did go to Barnes and Nobles. Before we went, we enjoyed a cup of tea.
“I sat on a back porch with my mother and daughter one humid southern evening last summer and realized that just one breath, one heartbeat ago, I was in my daughter’s place, sitting with my own mother and grandmother in the damp and fragrant heat. In yet just another breath, another heartbeat, I realized as well, I would be in my mother’s place, rocking with my own daughter and granddaughter. How quickly time passes. How quickly the chance to practice open-hearted parenting slips through our hands. How precious this brief time we are given with our children truly is. Ask yourself: “If I were to go through one typical day with my children with this tender, bittersweet awareness of the fleetness and fragility of time in my heart, how would it change my life as a parent?” Written by Melissa West
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This is so sweet. I’ve been thinking a lot about the same thing that is in your quote. I’ll probably blog about it next week. I love tea parties. Ainsley and I have them occasionally, but with only water and plastic dishes. 🙂 I hope you’re having a great time with your little girl and that baby.
cute, cute, cute! Daughters are so precious and grow so quickly! Enjoy your time alone with her!! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by! I think my music is from a CD, just can’t remember which one! lol I’ll scout around later and look, it may have been one I borrowed from my folks….I’ll look and see!
I love your tea party pictures, they are very sweet and your daughter is beautiful!!
mother daughter time is so wonderful and very well needed when my mom and dad are here for 3-5 months at a time in the winter they wont be here till next winter but oh well. i love the quality time we spend together even if its just watching a tv program love to all shelly and by the way i just am xanga surfing love to all shelly.
How very sweet! I know this in my head and my heart, but so often get busy and don’t use my time the way I should.
Reading your post warmed my heart I think all to often we get caught up in the every day demands of our life and forget to stop, breathe and take it all in I love the tea party pics, too cute. Thanks so much for sharing the Titus2.com with me…. I am ordering something today
I saw that you commented on my site!
I love the house that you guys are wanting to move into. I would love so much to live in that house. That is my dream home…someday, mybe, Lord willing 🙂
I cannot wait until my daughter is old enough to have tea parties 🙂
what a lovely tea party!!!!
Hi! Thanks for visiting my site:) I remember those times of tea parties… Now my youngest daughter(17) and I go to lunch, just us, once a month. That’s special too. Enjoy them all you can- they grow up so fast…
blessings, Shawn
Your pictures are lovely. Thank you so much for sharing them.
Have a blessed evening.
Thanks for saying hi! I love the pictures, and that is so true, life is passing far too quickly.
Oh Shan the quote fit the time you had with Gee perfectly! I have to go copy it and it put it up on my own cupboard!
How very precious! These are memories to treasure!
So precious! My sisters and friends and I grew up with the American Girl Dolls too, and these pictures bring back fond childhood memories!