The girls made me my very own nature collage with things they gathered from our yard. It couldn't have been more perfect! Amazing how a brown paper bag, scotch tape, and some "treasures" from the yard can create the perfect gift.
"But the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while we are 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 doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."
