View Outside My Kitchen Window - May

♫A Love Story♫

As you can see, there's much more green to be seen from the view outside my kitchen window on this fine May day.  My thoughts of late have been of new life.  Spring not only brings the sprouting of flowers and leaves, but for us, a granddaughter.  Yesterday we were delighted to spend the afternoon with Olivia June (aka Olive) and capture these many faces of our three-and-a-half-week-old newborn grandbaby....

I spent an hour holding her in my arms while she slept....

I thought back to my own babies.  Did I ever spend an hour just holding them while they slept?  Or did I immediately put them in their bed once they fell asleep so I could get something done?  I have the feeling I did the latter.  

As for my garden, new plants are emerging everyday....

I love to go out into the garden first thing in the morning to see what's new.  I'm still waiting to see if some things made it through our harsh winter.  There is still several plants I'm wondering about, but I haven't given up on them just yet.

I think grandchildren are a wonderful example of how God doesn't give up on us.  A new generation to love in a way, that as parents, we seldom allow ourselves.  "Taking care of" meant, for me, seeing they were fed, clothed, well-rested, educated, etc.  Simply to hold or play with them did not seem to fit into my schedule on a daily basis especially once my second child came along.  I think that's why I loved nursing my babies so much.  It allowed me to spend that quiet time with them without feeling guilty because it was part of "taking care of" them.  In other words, I was very work-oriented.  Everything I did needed to have a purpose and "just holding" and "just playing with" felt frivolous.  Of course now I don't feel that way.  Now I realize the value in just "being with" when it involves children.  

Here are more newly emerging plants seen from the view outside my other kitchen window....

Is there something new in your life that you feel excited to nurture?  Have you come to value some things in your life better now than you did when you were younger?  Is there some wisdom you can impart to the rest of us....something we might be taking for granted that you've already come to appreciate that we might not have yet?