A good reminder

Lately Parker has become more of a challenge- and I don't want that to sound negative like he is a "terrible two" or that he is a bad child....because that is not the case at all...however, because he is growing older and getting more of a will and realizing that he has choices he can make instead of just doing what mommy says- I have to devote more attention to making sure I raise him the way God would have me raise him. So that entails more discipline and stopping to address things and "reasoning" with my 2.5 year old and as any mom could identify that can wear on someone. So tonight I caught a glimpse of a blog posting I wrote last year titled "all he wanted was my attention" and that immediately struck a cord. It reminded me that no matter how much work I have to put into my children each day- this is only a brief period of my life....BRIEF....these sweet innocent, precious days with my little boys that love me so much and want to be with me all day everyday. Today, I was having lunch with a friend and she mentioned what would I do when my boys started to date....as I was thinking about it, I looked over at my sweet Beckham who was just gazing at me with lovey eyes...I thought....what am I going to do???? What am I going to do when my boys don't want to sit arm-to-arm on the couch with me- and what am I going to do when we go to a strange place and they don't want me to hold them or let them sit in my lap until they realize everything is OK. What am I going to do when Parker doesn't want me to come play in his room with him every day or play blocks with him....what am I going to do when I can't rock my boys to sleep or read them fun childrens books or sing to them to calm them down. What am I going to do when I can't play the "I love YOU more" game with Parker (and Beckham too:)). What am I going to do when my boys are men, and I am no longer "mommy", but "mom"????? That is a hard pill to swallow, and it VERY quickly brought my head back down to seeing the beauty of where we are at, no matter what the journey, no matter how testing your kids are and no matter how exhausted you are at the end of the day.....we must cherish, cherish, cherish, because one day, we will look back at these times and only think of the sweet, tender precious times. It's time to re-focus and re-center my way of thinking so that I can enjoy these times with my boys, yet still be ready to move on.

So, that was a GOOD reminder