I found this poem and it touched my heart, ....... so I wanted to share it
with you......


One of these days, you'll shout, "Why don't you kids grow up and act your
age!".  And they will Or, "You guys get outside and find yourselves something
  to do.. and don't slam the door!"
  And they won't.

  You'll straighten up the boy's bedroom neat and tidy--bumpter stickers
  discarded, bedspread tucked and smooth, toys displayed on the shelves.
   Hangers in the closet.  Animals caged.  And you'll say out loud, "Now I
 want
  it to stay this way." And it will.

  You'll prepare a perfect dinner with a salad that hasn't been picekd to
 death
  and a cake with no finger traces in the icing, and you'll say, "Now,
there's
  a meal for company."  And you'll eat it alone.

  You'll say: "I want complete privacy on the phone.  No dancing around.  No
  demolition crews.  Silence!  Do you hear?"  And you'll have it.

  No more plastic tablecloths stained with spaghetti.  No more bedspreads to
  protect the sofa from damp bottoms.  No more gates to stumble over at the
 top
  of the basement steps.  No more clothespins under the sofa.  No more
 playpens
  to arrange a room around.

  No more anxious nights under a vaporizer tent.  No more sand on the sheets
 or
  Popeye movies in the bathrooms.  No more iron-on patches, wet, knotted
  shoestrings, tight boots, or rubber bands for ponytails.

  Imagine.  A lipstick with a point on it.  No baby sitter for New Year's ve.
   Washing only once a week.  No PTA meetings. No car pools.  No blaring
  radios.  No one washing her hair at 11 p.m.

  Think about it.  No more Christmas presents out of toothpicks and library
  paste.  No more sloppy oatmeal kisses.  No more tooth fairy.  No knees to
  heal, no responsibility.

  Only a voice crying, "Why don't you grow up?" and the silence echoing, "I
  did".
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Cindy Curtis , RN, IBCLC
 2/12/97    5:42:10 PM
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   "Love is like wildflowers , It's often found in the most unlikely places."
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