Hey Mama Monday: Now Is Crazy, Now Is Chaotic… but Now Is Wonderful

Hey Mama,

A decade from now, those hyper little monkeys of yours will be big. Maybe even all grown up. Your life will be VERY different than it is now. You won’t recognize it. Maybe less chaotic. Maybe fewer cookie crumbs on the floor. Maybe less spit-up and tear-soaked (or snotty) shoulders; your clothes will actually stay dry for 24 hours straight.

You’ll miss it, Mama. All this activity one day will fade into… simply memories. A mental picture album with echoing remembrances of loudness, laughter, clattering dishes, kid-noise. It will be quiet, and may feel a little empty.

Today though, your (loud) life is moving, always moving. Sometimes too slowly, you think, as you look at the clock. When will he be home from work to help me? Three more hours?! I need some peace. It’s too loud here!

It’s wildly madhouse-crazy now, Mama, and a break would be nice. But just know, a decade from now you are going to sometimes yearn for what you have now. Look at those faces good and hard. They’re little, pudgy, silly, carefree. They scrunch up, still, when they’re laughing.

 Those eyes are moonbeams. Those cheeks, kissable. A decade or two from now, your life may be calmer. More civilized. More dignified. Quieter.

 Maybe too quiet.

 The kissy cheeks, far away. The gazing eyes up at you…elsewhere now.

Enjoy these kiddos today, Mama. God has a beautiful plan! Rejoice in what is now. Look at them longer; these little people are your “photo album” in your mind when things get slow and quiet, many years from now. They are your joy. They are your gift from the Lord.

Have a sweet, peaceful day today. Even with all of that heaping laundry and piles of dishes. Enjoy the now. The Lord will take care of the rest. He always has.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? – Matt 6:25-26