We're gonna miss this...

Recently I heard a new country song by Trace Adkins called You're Gonna Miss This and I was reminded how we truly need to savor each moment and really live the one we're in right now. Even if you're not into country music, you really should listen to the words of the following two songs, I'm sure you'll love them!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG9XfJxMY8A&hl=en]

Here is a poem I found at a scrapbooking show a when I was pregnant with Ace.

My Son's Hand
by Patsy Gaut

I took his eager little hand.
I let him lead the way...
I didn't do the laundry...
There's more important things today.

The wall has tiny handprints
From jam and butter toast...
Instead of tidying up a bit
We took the path he chose.

We had a grand adventure,
My little son and I...
We built a fort of sticks and stones
With windows to the sky.

We watched the clouds make sheep
And bears and a giant dinosaur...
To him the world's a playground
To wander and explore.

We waded in a bubbling brook
Where minnows swim with ease...
We watched a robin feed her young
Then she floated on the breeze.

We found a glad down in the woods
And now my small son knows...
How Mama Bunny hides her nest
Where the mighty Oak tree grows.

You see, he is the Oak tree...
Just a sapling on its way...
To grander, greater, nobler things...
A King he'll be someday.

My dishes went unwashed today...
I didn't make the bed...
And if my windows do not shine
His eyes will shine instead.

I didn't sweep the floors...
There is cobwebs on the stair...
In twenty years, no one on earth
Will know or even care.

But I have helped my little boy
To noble manhood grow...
In twenty years the whole wide world
Will smile and see and know.

Make some wonderful memories this weekend!