February 20, 2011

"Love you All Day"

Bit of an odd title for a blog, but we live our life by it.  To my son, who is 29 months old, time has no real meaning. The longest amount of time he knows is one whole day.  That is the greatest amount of time his mind can comprehend..it may as well be a lifetime. He tells us.... you guessed it..
"Love you all day"
His version of 'I love you for ever and always, no matter what'. The sweetest sentimate I've ever heard in my life.  So it has special meaning to us.

Mummy: "Goodnight buddy, have a good sleep"
Son: "Nye Mummy, Love you aallllllllll day"
Mummy: "Love you thhhiiiiissss much"
Son: "Yes, Thhhiiissss much, moon and back, all day"

He has taught me more, than I can every teach him.

His "all day" is my "Smack me in the face with reality".   Its so innocent. It is pure love without concept of time.  Soon he will grow, time will consume him like it does the rest of us. He will grow up. He will probably not remember when his thought process meant that he only had a day. There is nothing beyond a day at that age. I try to remember that in our everyday lives.  'Tantrums' over not being able to have what he wants when he wants it, i must remember in his mind it is now or never. I must stop procrastinating in my life, I can put it off untill tomorrow, what if my mind 'knew' there was no tomorrow, imagine what I would want to do, would want to say. I only have 'all day'. I will use my day, even though as adults we 'know' the next day will come, I will use that day too, because we do not know when tomorrow will not exist to us.
I love him. I love him all day. Every day, every week, every year, every breath.

Love All Day
K.