Wineoclockmama in luxembourg

This year my oldest daughter will be 16.

It still seems hard to believe that so much time has passed.

So much has happened in the past 16 years yet it seems like yesterday I was in a birthing pool giving birth to her.

There is a picture taken of me just after I’d had Daisy. I’m on the ward and Daisy is beside me I’m just staring at her. I didn’t know I was being photographed but I do remember what was going on in my head at that moment.

Realisation that my life was never going to be the same again.

That this tiny, sweet smelling bundle would be with my always.

Would consume my thoughts

Would make me smile, laugh and cry.

Now I do spend a lot of time on my own mainly walking my dog so I do think about time.

Just how fast it flys when you don’t want it to yet so slowly at other times.

Another time I remember clearly is of being in the park close to my house. I was about 10 years old. I remember laying on the grass staring at the sky. Watching the clouds moving and the shapes they made. It was a profound moment where time seemed to stop. The chatter and background noise of the park hushed..

I was aware then of who I was in that moment and of who I might become in time.

Now as I get older I try and appreciate more the moment. Who we have with us as they might not be there tomorrow.

Because time still marches on whether we like it or not.

There are so many moments.

So many times we wish we could get back.

Thank you 🙏