Hug your Child

This is a reminder for us mommies. This has been circulating on other triplet mommy message boards in honor of parents who lost their precious triplets recently. I need to remember this, and apply it as often as I can:

Just For Today by Sally Meyer

Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I see your face...and laugh when I feel like crying.

Just for this morning, I will let you wake up softly in your flannel p.j.'s...and hold you until you are ready to stir.

Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear...and I will say how beautiful you are.

Just for this morning, I will step over the laundry to pick you up...and take you to the park to play.

Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink...and let you teach me how to put your puzzle together.

Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer off...and sit with you in the garden blowing bubbles.

Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny grumble when you scream and whine for the ice cream truck...and I will buy you one, if he comes by.

Just for this afternoon, I won't worry about what you are going to be when you grow up...I will simply love you for the joy you bring me.

Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me make cookies...and I wont stand over you . . . trying to 'fix things.'

Just for this afternoon, I will take you to McDonald's and buy us both a 'Happy Meal'...so you can have two toys.

Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms and tell you the story of how you were born...and how much we love you.

Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the bathtub...and I won't get angry when you pour water over your sister's head.

Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late...while we sit on the porch swing and count all the stars.

Just for this evening, I will bring you glasses of water...and snuggle beside you for hours...and miss my favorite T.V. show.

And tonight when you are sleeping safe and warm in your bed, I will think of the mothers and fathers who mourn for the children they have lost.

I will remember the parents who sit by hospital beds,watching over the little ones they love.

I will weep for those parents whose children are cold,hungry and suffering, and .... this evening, when I kneel down to pray, I will simply be grateful for all that I have and not ask for anything...except just one more day.

© copyright 1999 Sally Meyer (written for her autistic son, Dhylan)