One Year Ago

I've purposely been avoiding this topic.  Not thinking about what tomorrow is, or what it means.  It's simply unfathomable to me that Carter has been here an entire year.  That we survived our first year with our first child.  That tomorrow I will hold a toddler and not a baby.

One year ago I was on day 3 of my labor & delivery stay.  I had my cerclage removed and we were officially on "Baby Watch 2012!"  Little did we know that we would be discharged later that day only to come back to a very different situation the next day.  I thank God every single day for the doctors and nurses at Memorial Hermann who saved my life and delivered my precious preemie safely.

One year...gosh, it feels just like yesterday.  I'm going to blink and it will be his high school graduation.

Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing and butter the bread,
Sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.




Oh, I’ve grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren’t her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).





The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
For children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.