October

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November." 

Anne from Anne of Green Gables


October 2012 would be tops if Siby would just arrive already!!  



PS:  Anne of Green Gables is my favorite book/mini series of all time.  Evelina and Siby better look out. 

Babies Don't Keep

I came across this poem and it reminds me that I must slow down.  I am always busy busy and need to remember that Lina is already growing up so quickly and I don't want to miss a thing....especially now that I'm back at work and don't get to indulge in all of her cuteness, coos, and smiles for hours each day.  

"Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth

empty the dustpan, poison the moth,

hang out the washing and butter the bread,

sew on a button and make up a bed.  

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?

She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue,

(lullaby, rockabye, lullaby loo).

Dishes are waiting and bills are past due,

(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).

There shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew

and out in the yard there's a hullabaloo

but I'm playing Kang and this is my Roo. 

Look! Aren't her eyes the most wondeful hue?  

(lullaby, rockabye, lullaby loo).

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,

for children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.

So quiet down, cobwebs.  Dust go to sleep.

I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep."

-Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

-Elizabeth Stone

“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.”

-Anonymous