Parenting treasures

Last night, this little girl walked into our bedroom in the middle of the night.  I half woke as I saw her standing beside me, reaching out my arms she slid into bed beside me tightly snuggled.  Sometime later I woke up a bit more and we put her back into her bed.  It reminded me of when I was a four year old.

The memory is clear as if it was not that long ago... but I remember waking up in the night, feeling scared I would head off to my parents bedroom.  Relief would always wash over me as I saw my Daddy asleep.. he too would reach for me and just like my daughter, I'd snuggle in next to him knowing I was safe.

What a treasure it is to know that my daughter feels safe to come to Mummy in the night.  I delight in this bond we share and I hope one day to share those night hours snuggled up with any other children God chooses to bless Ben and I with.  After five, I never again turned to my parent in the night for that safety and security, these days come to pass. I deeply treasure this stage of our parenting journey.

This Journey

Since I've started feeling a bit better healthwise Katherine and I have been enjoying spending time exploring outside every day.  Since Spring has come it has been so much nicer then during the freezing winter months.

With Spring, I have also started falling in love with my birthday present. My darling husband bought me a nice SLR camera.  It has been so much fun learning what the symbols and buttons mean on my camera.  Katherine is a beautiful but unwilling victim. She thinks camera's are a joke. :D  So I was thrilled today when I was finally able to get a photo of her smiling and NOT running!

Katherine's funniest line for last month has been "I can't sleep!"  A couple hours after we had put her to sleep, we were getting ready to crash when Katherine walked into our room and announced that she couldn't sleep.  Ben and I couldn't help having a little laugh about that!

Ben and I can hardly believe that in just two months our little girl is officially the big 2 that she keeps talking about.  It's funny.. it feels like she's always been in our lives and yet she is such a little person and it's only been two years. hmmm

This photo leaves me rather meditative.  A picture says a thousand words.. I'll leave you to think about the 1000 words you can see her.. It makes me think of her future and my job in guiding those little feet.
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