But the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this.
I did not live in the moment enough.
This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only
in photographs. There is one picture of the three of them sitting in
the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day,
ages 6, 4 and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we
talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they
slept that night.
I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing:
dinner, bath, book, bed.
I wish I had treasured the doinga little more and the getting it done
a little less."
-Anna Quindlen
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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