Arrows

For whatever reason, when I upload pictures, they don't show as pictures. They show as all kinds of words and symbols...can't figure out how to change that.
My day has consisted of...you guessed it. CLEANING. Only, it's my own house this time. I was folding/ putting away towels, when I found the stack of baby towels that are so thin you can almost see through them. Some are 10 years old, others are 7..

It made me think, we are really nearly out of the baby stage. We have no use for baby towels anymore. I used to feel such sadness at that thought of being out of the baby stage. I thought for sure I would ALWAYS want another baby. But, in the last year, I have increasingly become happy to be done with nursing,diapers,potty training, not sleeping at night...and all other things that come with having infants.

Now, if by some crazy miracle, i became pregnant,i wouldn't, in the slightest, be upset or angry. It would be incredible, just as all the others had been. But, it's not something I am longing for as it used to be.

So, today, I cut up all those baby towels into rags for the kitchen. It was sorta..
theraputic for me. I thought about my little baby Cassie, all snuggled in the bear towel, so clean and beautiful. I thought about my sweet Samantha, being bathed in the blue baby tub, well after she was 1, because we only had a shower..wrapping her sweet little body in the soft white towel with pink edging. I remembered bathing my sweet baby boys, so tiny and fragile. I could wrap them both up together in one little towel. And I remembered the first time I bathed Aeva when she was 9 months and nearly to big for the baby towels!:) Her chubby little rosy cheeks, she loved the bath.

So, i said goodbye to a phase of life, a awesome,hard,lovely,tiring but extremely rewarding phase...

and hello to the next. I proceeded to clean the kitchen floor with said towels....:)