seems like yesterday...

this picture was taken one year ago today...i am quite simply overwhelmed by how quickly this year has passed.  ella snapped this picture of sam and i when we dropped the three of them off at nana and papa's house to stay for a few days while i was in the hospital.  as much as i feel like our family is complete, it still makes me melencholy that our baby days are drawing to an end and that there will be no more babies in the belly.  i always loved being pregnant, there's nothing more magical in this world if you ask me.  i adored the little flutters that turn into monkey flips and then into kicks worthy of a soccer game.  i guess there were some aspects of pregnancy that weren't my favorite...heartburn, backache and the like.  but for the most part i just loved being pregnant!  so today i am allowing myself to be a bit blue that the pregnancy/newborn days are behind us.  tomorrow i will allow myself to be blue about a baby reaching that huge one year milestone.  and then i will go back to savoring the here and now and being fascinated by every new thing our baby learns and enchanted with his ever-blooming personality. 
i think that it's ok to give into a little bit of melencholy every once in a while!