Mommyhood

“I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks...”
― Katrina Kenison, The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir

 

 

It's been two and a half months since we packed Cody up and moved him to Independence, Kansas.  The dynamics of our home are not the same without Cody here.  We were blessed to have him home for a few days last week.  After having him home I realized the dynamics of our home may never be the same as they once were. 

I see changes in Cody.  Growth.  Independence.  It's ironic that the town where he's gaining his independence is named Independence.  Just as Cody is growing, so am I.  I'm learning to let go.  I'm growing as a mom.

~jen