I learned the value of prayer, alone at night or in a crowded shopping center when your child has run away, and you don't know where to look for him. I learned how to sit back and do nothing, just sit and hold someone and listen to their breathing. I found out that baths can be the most terrifying thing and that I need to use those eyes in the back of my head. I learned that children are all the same, and yet so very different. They cry, laugh, squeal, and play, but some do those things for very different reasons.
Some children never talk, but they speak volumes with their eyes, and with their tiny hands.
I learned that each day is to be treasured, each child is to be loved. That some days, its all fight fight fight, until the battle is over for the day. The war will never end though. . . I learned to take life one small step at a time. It is but for a moment that we are here, too soon you will be grown.