The flip book

  Remember those flip books?  You could flip through quickly and see the animation or story?  That's what I feel like when I look at my kids right now.

I feel this giant swelling of thankfulness in my heart for everything they are.  I look at them and the little flip book starts going.  I can see them as newborns and babies, as a toddler, and now a preschooler.  I watched my oldest skip home in the wind next to his daddy yesterday and the little book started going.  Wow, my baby goes to school.  I can remember being in the hospital with him and moving here and his first day of school.  I love that he still asks for his mom first and wants to tell me everything.

I watched the little book flip as my baby and I snuggled in the dark after he got sick last night.  His little eyes kept looking at me and I remember being at the hospital in the middle of the night looking at those blue eyes when he was born.  He had a little hand on my face.

We are thankful and blessed in this house by our kids.  My hubby and I discuss that we have loved every stage of our kids.  We feel thankful that we aren't wishing away our time with them.  Wishing they were younger or older or different.  We love where we are at each moment, even the hard ones.

There are only so many pages in our kids little flip books.  I want to be thankful and fill those books with the blessing that are our children.  I don't want to miss something.  I don't want to look at the book and see it filled with "Just a minutes" and "hold on" and "I'm busy".  Because I'm not.  I'm thankful that my job right now is to fill that little flip book with love for my kids.

Linking up with Bigger Picture Blogs today at Alita's.
I'm also linking up with Finding Joy!