Time for Me, Time for Them

Time for me...

Time for them...

It's a balancing game this motherhood thing.  It is.  Though many times the scale leans towards them, I need to take moments, some smaller than others, but moments non the less, for me.  Moments to breath, moments to recollect my thoughts, moments to find peace, moments to spend with friends. 

This weekend I did just that.  Spent a beautiful cool evening with mama friends chatting, laughing and enjoying the view at a local restaurant overlooking the river.  Time for me. 

The next day my chiquitos and I took a nature walk with friends, through one of our favorite parks. Time for them.  

I love my chiquitos with all my heart, but to be a better mother to them, I need to find that balance.

What about you?  What do you do to keep a balance?

time sure flies

Where has my baby gone?  First kindergarten, now his first tooth is loose! He is growing up way too fast and I mean WAY TOO FAST!  I want time to slow down, I want to savor every bit of his childhood.   I'm scared that one day he no longer will want to bathe me with hugs and kisses!  My baby boy is growing, growing, I tell ya! 

I know, I'm a bit melodramatic, but...the moment he came into my room Saturday morning and the first words out of his mouth were, "Mami, my tooth is loose!"  I just wanted to sink back into my bed and make time stop! I hugged him of course and cheered him on and told him all those wonderful things a  mami tells his excited child loosing his first tooth, but then as the day went on and I would catch glimpses of him playing with his newly loose tooth, I would travel back in time... 

To the day I found out I was pregnant!  When I heard his first cry.  When  the doctor announced, "He's a boy!"  Oh,  back to when I first held that tiny little beautiful being in my arms. So warm, so frail, so, mine.

He is no longer that tiny fragile being.  No.  He sure isn't.  He is strong and smart, and the sweetest little boy (or shall I say big boy) you'll ever meet.   And very much independent.  Little by little he needs me less and less.

And all of these thoughts ran through my mind, just because he announced his tooth was loose.

He is growing up that little boy of mine.  He is indeed.