Five-Minute Friday: Remember
Posted by Lindsey on Nov 4, 2011 in 5-Minute Fridays | 6 comments
1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no overthinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here and invite others to join.
3. Go a little overboard in encouraging the writer who linked up before you
Are you ready? What are you waiting for?
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Remember
Since becoming pregnant it’s like my brain has decided it is time to jog down memory lane over and over and over again. Even my appetite has joined the ride with cravings of childhood foods.
I often think of when my youngest sister was born—I was 11—and everything surrounding my mom’s pregnancy with her and her birth. I don’t remember all the details, but I do remember the baby shower my mom’s friends had for her, coming home from school and mom napping {I couldn’t for the life of me understand why she was so tired: now I get it!}, and our trips to the mall where our number one complaint was how many times we had hit the restroom, I kind of understand that now as well. I feel this intense and even greater connection with my momma now and with each memory that pops back in my head the the greater that connection grows. It’s amazing to me what God has purposed for our lives and how we have no idea how He will orchestrate things, but when we look back and remember where we’ve come from we can see how He’s been preparing us our whole lives for where we found ourselves yesterday, find ourselves today and will find ourselves in the future. I hope I always remember.
PS. I even remember being belly height when I was four and my mom was pregnant with #3 {there are four of us} and looking up at her and then straight ahead at her belly and asking, “do you still have a belly button?” Ha!
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Your PS. made me laugh. I enjoyed reading your childhood memories and congrats on your baby!!
Thanks Kelly! So glad to make you laugh :-)
ah yes. we understand those mom things like “you’re going to trip and hurt yourself!” – - for me it is that my two are exactly the same age as my brother and I are apart…watching the two of them together, I feel like I am living my childhood over! except this time, I get to eat what I want ;)
(linked up with you through 5 min Friday…so fun!)
Love it! One of my friends told me once that one of her most favorite aspects of motherhood is getting to live out her childhood again in a sense. So much fun!
I love your perspective…how looking back we see God has been preparing us for where we are now or will be in the future. So true!
Congratulations on your precious little one-
~Stacy
I love how 5-minute Friday can pull out little gems we don’t even realize are hiding in our thoughts. So happy those thoughts could minister to you :-)