This week the topic for the Five Minute Friday link-up post is Middle. What is a link-up? Essentially a link-up is when you join other bloggers and write on a similar topic. You share your blog posts with one another and begin conversations via a host site. You can head over to Kate Motaung’s page to check out other entries from inspired bloggers. Here’s my five minutes of uninterrupted, unedited writing on this week’s topic:
In the middle of each phase we don’t appreciate it.
We don’t pause and recognize that this is a place we will never be again. When our babies leave us exhausted and sleepless we slip into survival mode and just try to get by. Anything that keeps one foot in front of the other will do. We let life pass us by without committing each moment to memory.
One day we take a look at our lives and things have calmed down. Sure, there are still storms, but while we are nursing broken hearts and injured limbs we remember those days of living feeding to feeding. Those times seem so simple now. Whatever happened to those days?
We long to go back to the time when our babies were so little- before they didn’t wander far from our reach. We dream of moments when they were content to rest in our laps and we try hard to picture their tiny hands wrapped around our fingers.
In the middle of those phases it seems like they will be tiny creatures forever.
We cry. We break down. We trade our designer clothes for bath robes and messy buns.
Then one day when we reunite with our sanity, sit down (finally able to re-introduce white to our wardrobes) and we start to miss those spit up stains and the days without showers.
The Ameri Brit Mom
The Ameri Brit Mom 
This is exactly how it goes. Struggle through it and then look back wondering where it all went. Great job making me think back on a few years ago. Thanks. – Lori, your neighbor on FMF
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That is so true! When we are in the middle of things, we don’t realize what this is about or how to really appreciate them. Sometimes it’s good, but sometimes we should appreciate them more and be really present.
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