a friend from work passed this along yesterday, and so much of it rings true in my life-
“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” Anna Quindlen
i do wish that i used this blog to document more of my life, but i've never been a journal keeper. and i somehow got away with nary a photo from memorial day weekend. i did take the camera to crystal falls but it never left my bag. and i don't feel all that bad about it.
i keep telling myself that if i had a nicer laptop that i'd blog more, and maybe that is true. but i don't have to tell myself that i'm doing myself a disservice by not blogging. it's okay! i'll have the memories in my heart and mind to hold on to, long after this thing called the web has ceased to be.

I love that essay by Anna Quindlen. It makes me teary
Posted by: Jen | June 17, 2010 at 02:32 PM