Basket Head Mother

Sometimes life feels this way.
I really enjoyed this quote by Author Anna Quindlen who reminds us not to rush past the fleeting moments.{or if I could enter here-the basket-head mother syndrome} She said:

“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less”(Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11).

Reading this made me feel incredibly sad. I don't want to be a basket head mother. I want to cherish every moment of their lives, from the smallest to the gigantic.
Today I'm removing my basket!