God Bless you WordPress, for giving out a prompt that brought me right to this picture only moments after reading the question.

Without a doubt, if I could go back and relive any time in my past, it would be my Baby Days…

What I would give to go back and experience, once again, those times of bonding, nursing, caring for, and watching those first milestones of my baby girls.

It was the first two years of each baby that I wish I could bottle and save within an old worn Hope Chest. I always wanted one at the end of my bed, but it would need to be an old worn one, and not a newly made piece. It should look like it had seen some battles and tough times, but withstood it all just to sit and hold my treasures.

On rainy days I could sit and go back through all my favorite memories that were stashed away for safe keeping. Special baby blankets I had made while waiting for each of my girls birth, their first pair of baby booties, and even favorite first books or teething rings with chew marks still visible. All I have now is a blue plastic tote with the few remnants salvaged from things… it works!

If it were possible I would go back to a time when my babies needed me, loved everything about me, and couldn’t stand to be parted from my breast.

I know deep down in their hearts, my daughters love me… they just don’t really want or need me anymore… it is what it is… I get it!

That was why I wrote all of those Do You Remember letters… one day they will want to look back and remember… one day, and for that day I will trust in God.

Until we meet again, they and I, there will always be those Baby Days…