Another Day...

Just another day. One could say "the same as yesterday", but there are so many things that could be arguably different. Trivial things such as clothes, hairstyle, date. These things are obviously not going to be the same as they were yesterday (one would hope anyway). But in most other aspects, the weekdays are so similar in routines and work that they just seem to blend together. That ever happen to you? When you can't remember what day it was that you did a certain task because all the days feel the same. It is almost a bit depressing in that there is nothing meaningful about the last few days of your life to make a significant memory in your brain. So does that mean the last few days have been meaningless to you? Useless? "Just another workday"? If I went home and did nothing special tonight and then died in my sleep, I would feel that the last couple days had, in a sense, been wasted.


However, I will argue that none of my days are wasted entirely since I have an 18 month old son. He means the world to me and every moment with him is one that I treasure. Honestly there are some moments I would care to do without (the screaming, yelling, whinning, crying fits that all toddlers have) but even those times make the good times that much better.


I can not explain to someone who doesn't have children what it is like to have "made" something like that - a human being. You made him/her and they are part of you forever. I can not express to those people the complete awe that comes with a newborn baby that is yours. Nor can I explain the way you will never love someone else as much, as hard, or as fiercely as you do your own children. The way your heart hurts for their every pain, the way you worry about them every moment. It completely changes the way you think, feel, and live your life.


So I suppose today may just be "another day" for some, but to me it is one more day I have been blessed with to have the opportunity to make my son's life the best it can be for him. One more opportunity to play with, laugh with, and love this little person. One more day to make a memory.