Tomorrow is like the pages of an unwritten book. Tomorrow we choose which foot to start on – be it the left or right, good or bad. Every new day holds promise and we choose how to live it – no matter how the odds are stacked against us. Sometimes those odds seem unsurmountable and the obstacles impossible. It takes incredible strength, resolve and inner spirit to keep going when those days weigh heavy on us.
Tara set the challenging theme of ‘Tomorrow‘ in ‘The Gallery’ at her blog this week.
I thought of my children walking out the door each day, with their school bags on their backs, getting older before my eyes – without me really noticing – until one day they walk down the drive and away on their own life journeys. I didn’t get an opportunity to take the picture I had in my mind – with little Alice toddling between them, her journey on life’s path only just starting out with the most innocent of footsteps.
I thought of their little hands and feet growing each day – whilst mine seem to weather with time.
I thought of their heads getting a little closer to mine with the passing of time.
I thought of how it feels to greet each new day and how some ‘tomorrows’ can be so full of excitement – Christmas, Birthdays, holidays – and how others can be full of fear – job interviews, doctor’s appointment, starting a new job.
And then I thought about the most life changing ‘tomorrow’ in our lives so far; which was undoubtedly the ‘tomorrow’ we became parents. I’d had a long labour– starting early one Friday morning and continuing all day and through the night. We just kept holding on till ‘tomorrow’. And our baby finally arrived at 11.12pm on Saturday night – nearly kept us waiting for another ‘tomorrow’!
Every one says a baby will ‘change your life’. No one and no book can explain how much. Our ‘tomorrows’ are now filled with so much more than they were before. More hopes, more fears, more dreams and aspirations. More willingness to try to step out on the right foot each new day for the sake of our children.
Tomorrow is full of possibilities. x
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Please visit ‘The Gallery’ for some wonderful, inspiring and funny perceptions of ‘Tomorrow‘.
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Lovely post and looks like you have similar sentiments to me! Looking forward to knowing what tomorrow is like.
I LOVE that photo – a family being born, so very special
I remember seeing that photo for the first time and remembering how wonderful you looked in it. On seeing it again I can’t believe you had a long journey to get to that tomorrow! In my version I look hot, tired, bewildered and a little bit scared (not a good look at all!) – you two just look excited!
Wow you look so lovely for a tomorrow that was so long in coming.
Love what you wrote about all the tomorrow images you imagined too. Hope you get round to them!
Beautiful picture. I love the hopeful smiles on your faces 🙂 Nice to meet you.
Such a lovely post, and a gorgeous picture. x
Memory can be amazing….especially for us older folk!!….BUT we so remember waiting at the end of the phone which seemed an age and thinking of you in labour with with Dan by your side…..that picture tells such a happy ending and look at you two grown ups now….trebled the joy so very much….be it hard work…you do and amazing job making tomorrow a joy for all!!
beautiful woman, beautiful child, beautiful family.
The joy is tangible and hope your child continues to bring you very lovely tomorrows.
I like the way you write.
My Gallery attempt is at http://gigglingatitall.blogspot.com
So much love and happiness in that photo, fabulous xxx
Gorgeous photo. I loving this weeks topics. The entries are all full of emotion! Feel free to check out mine at http://wouldliketobeayummymummy.blogspot.com.
Am following you now 🙂
I love the photo and what you have written underneath. Its true that that ‘tomorrow’ changes you more than any other.
beautiful post.
tomorrow is still to be written and can be rewritten at any time… children rewrite our lives over and over and over…
thank you for sharing
LOVED reading this:)
Just went and read your birth story
I too walked along a beach (in Auckland)
and ended up having an emergency csection
did you go on to have the younger girls “naturally”???
with my oldest – my Sarah – who lives in Akl
Sort of… Sophie was a VBAC but wasn’t exactly ‘natural’ at the end – episiotomy and forceps: http://www.chezlee.co.nz/2005/12/birth-story/
Alice – hurrah! She was 100%, no drugs, au natural 🙂 Fabulous x
http://www.chezlee.co.nz/2010/04/the-day-alice-arrived/
Such a truly gorgeous photo Sarah, I love it – so much warmth and happiness and what a brilliant post to back it up x
p.s. I hope you haven’t been humming the theme tune to Littlest Hobo too much today 🙂
That is a lovely post and a beautiful photo. xxx
Such a beautifully written post and gorgeous photo, you both look SO happy, it’s shining out of your eyes. Lovely x
What an amazing post!
Love all these thoughts. So beautifully put. Tomorrow is what we make of it. And there are days when I am so so grateful that I have a fresh start tomorrow.
Beautiful post – all of it so true. Lovely photo of you too – radiant. I was a blob in mine!
Beautiful pic and beautiful post Sarah!
My “tomorrows” are getting scarier as the kids get older…….