If wishes were horses....

We would all take a ride....

I was reading this quote on another bloggers site. She was in a serious plane accident in August, where she was burned over 80% of her body, and her hubby 30%. They are still in critical condition with 4 small children. She writes quite lovely about the experience of Motherhood in general. I loved this quote especially;


Author Anna Quindlen reminds us not to rush past the fleeting moments She said: “The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . 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 [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. 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 doing a little more and the getting it done a little less”(Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11).

See her blog here: http://www.nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/
and about her recovery here: http://blog.cjanerun.com/