I cleaned out Macks closet today. I’ve been putting this off for quite some time. So much so that I’ve bought extra hangers just so I didn’t have to take his clothes down. I open his closet and it opens up memory lane. His clothes tell a story – one from each chapter of his life.
I wasn’t quite ready to close some of those first chapters. Until today. It was a huge milestone for me. One that I didn’t get through tear-free, but I got through it. I took each piece of clothing down and as I folded it, I quickly went back to that moment that he wore it, storing that memory in my heart, locking it and throwing away the key so that I can keep it forever.
It’s so often that we speak about the highlights of our children’s lives. The ups – taking first steps, saying his first word and the downs – teething, sleep deprivation. All of these are worth noting and shouting from the rooftops. But what about us? What about our milestones – those moments in our life that are worth remembering?
Like that time that I locked Harlan in the car and thought I was the worst mom ever (yeah it totally happened and I cried for hours.) Or the moment when I was finally confident in my decisions as a mother that I didn’t let some comment on the streets of New York City get to me the way that they used to. The first time I was able to leave my kids for a weekend with the girls without feeling guilty for leaving.
This past week we reached a milestone in our household, one that I would have much rather skipped, but knew it was bound to happen. Every single person in our house was sick. Macks had a double ear-infection and the stomach bug, Avery went through the stomach bug then picked up a cold and a horrible cough, which then spread to Har, and by Saturday, I was the last man down. There is nothing like trying to parent when you feel like crap and you know your kids feel the same exact way. Thankfully I was able to help the girls supress their cough with Little Remedies® Honey Cough Syrup. It’s natural formula with only three ingredients helped give them some relief for their coughs and throats so that they could rest and I could do much of the same. We made it through and we are all on the mend, thank goodness, but it was definitely a rough couple of days for all of us!
The best thing about all of these moments that I love looking back on is that they were key points in my journey of motherhood. They were specific times that either changed my path as a mom or that I learned a great deal from. They were my milestones of motherhood.
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