6 weeks

Well Asher's six weeks today!  Sorry we missed the 5 week mark, but we were out of town at Grandma and Grandpa Anderson's and it just didn't get done. It was great to be with family again, even though over the last six weeks since Asher was born, Eric's been home 17 work days plus weekends, and we've spent 27 calendar days with one grandparent or another. What a blessing!  I've really not had all that much time with Asher by myself, without someone else's support.  At times it's easier than I expected, when he smiles, coos, sleeps, and is just his adorable self, which thankfully is the majority of the time.  But there are times, it's more difficult than expected too.  Most often when I just can't get enough sleep, or feel overwhelmed by the mess that continues to grow in every room of our house, or the rare times when he cries and cries without being able to asses the cause and it just about breaks my heart. When it gets overwhelming, I try to turn first to prayer, but I also wanted to share a poem that my mom shared with me that really just helps me step back and put some things in perspective.

Babies Don't Keep

by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,

Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,

Hang out the washing, make up the bed,

Sew on a button and butter the bread.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?

She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,

Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye 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 his eyes the most wonderful hue?

Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.

The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow

But 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.

This time of life is short and it is precious. And isn't he adorable? 

This one was just too cute to pass up.

#Meagan