Posted August 17, 2009 at 5:43pm in quote
Posted July 8, 2009 at 5:51pm in quote
The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make… . I wish I had treasured the doing a little more
I did not live in the moment enough.
This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed.
and the
getting it done a little less
— Anna Quindlen
Posted June 24, 2009 at 6:26pm in quote
