Because I'll Miss This Someday

On the wall by our front door is a hand print.  See it there?

Maybe someday I'll wash it off.  Or paint over it (an even more remote possibility).  But for now, I'm leaving it there...and smiling when I see it.

I'm not sure whose hand made it, but I am certain that all the little hands in this house are growing into big hands; and like the older ladies who stop me in the grocery store tell me, "It goes so fast!  Enjoy each moment!"  I'm trying, and this hand print is a reminder to do just that.

Life is so full these days, so rich, so beautiful.  Even this day, which wasn't a particularly noteworthy day, gave me multiple treasures to store up in my memory bank...
~ I remember how Moriah happily walked and "danced" in her own way as our family sang worship songs together,
~ I remember how she stood at her daddy's feet and reached up as he handed out the communion elements, longing for a piece of cracker,
~ I remember how Josiah and David and I stood in a long line together at the fairgrounds this afternoon, waiting to pick up our ribbons...and how God planted a dear friend Lisa near us in line to lighten our hearts with conversation while we waited,
~ I remember how we visited an old friend Doris who is in the hospital...and how on our way out of the hospital, we happened to bump into another friend Eliza,
~ I remember Shav's cuddliness as we snuggled on the couch late this afternoon...and his happiness as I watched him jump from one couch to the other,
~ I remember Tobin's smile tonight as he slept for the first time in a new-to-him pair of Spiderman pajamas that I got last evening at Goodwill,
~ I remember my mother's joy and delighted exclamations as I showed her the other clothes I got at Goodwill (mostly for Moriah).  :)

All of these treasures - from just an ordinary day!

In the future when I am missing the ones who now put hand prints on my walls, I think I'll be thankful that I didn't wash that print away.  :)