ALWAYS

Sometimes I just want to be able to bottle an entire experience.  Those experiences filled with so much love, joy, peace and happiness that my heart cries knowing the moment will come to an end.

HastyKid sleeps, and has always slept, in her own bed. However, HastyHusband wakes up to go to work very early each morning and HastyKid gets up and weasels her way under the covers next to me for the last hour of sleep. She will say “Hi mom wanna cuddle” and I answer “Always”.  Holding her as she sleeps is going to be the one thing I know my heart will miss.  My heart is already anticipating that one morning she decides she is too sleepy, or too cold to wake up.

I lay with you in my arms

You are nine to my surprise

Where did the time go?

I want to remember this

How my arms swallow you

As you softly snore, safe

My cub inside my protection

My heart is crying from joy

As it is crying from sadness

Because it knows, it knows

This is but a fleeting moment

And in a tomorrow too soon

You will be too old, too grown

To need the cuddles and hugs

And I pray these moments

Will endure inside of me

As I hope they will endure

Inside of you, my most loved,

For many generations to come