Memories of Babyhood---As Time Goes By

Sometimes things that happen unexpectantly boggle the mind.

It's like we have recorders in our brains , and every sight, sound, smell, and thought is recording the minute we experience it.

Then, years later, it can be retrieved in a split second, sometimes when we least expect it.

While shopping in a new  really awesome country store, which I hope to post about in the near future, I saw a couple of Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls. Suddenly,  I wasn't in the store anymore, but back in a nursery on the second floor of an old Victorian house.

The memories were as clear as day.  We were expecting our first child, a boy. We wanted to know the sex of the baby so we could buy items ahead of time. No one would want to dress a baby boy all in pink or a little girl all in blue, right?

Anyway, I selected Raggedy Ann and Andy to be the theme of the baby boy's nursery.  I had collected those dolls for awhile and had quite a few of them.  They sat in a rag tag manner in the new baby's room.

Even the cover of the the baby book was, guess what?  Raggedy Ann and Andy. One of his first outfits had a decoration of  Raggedy Ann and Andy on the front.

The baby is a grown man now, married, and living far away.  But one look at a Raggedy Ann and Andy  zooms him right back to babyhood in my mind.

So do you think other shoppers in that country store wondered why the lady standing near the Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls had tears in her eyes?  (Hope they didn't think I was nuts.)

It's not a crime to be sentimental. I loved holding my little ones in my arms, wishing a world of blessings for them in their lives.

The years zoom by so we must savor each moment. I wish I could tell all new parents that these busy, exhaustion filled years with babies are their best ever. Once they are gone, one can never get them back.

IF YOU ARE A MOTHER, DID YOU HAVE A THEME FOR YOUR BABY'S NURSERY?