Our American Heritage
U.S. Constitution Signed

Moments For Mom
Elisabeth K. Corcoran

Click A Tutor

The Daily Motivator

Homeschool Internet
Resource Center - Save browsing time by checking here first!

The Home School Academy - Your Evenings Free, no lesson plans, simple record keeping.

Homeschool Study Links - Edu-Links provides a wealth of educational links categorized by subject as a home study resource for all ages. 

Discount Curriculum Catalog

Essential Learning Institute - Affordable Learning Disability  Solutions for Homeschooling Families.
Easily Administered Computer Based Program for Correcting Learning Disabilities - Including: Dyslexia - ADD - ADHD - Reading and Perceptual Impairments
An Affordable Answer!

Moments for Mom

September 2003 

Okay, I’m having one of those mom moments when I cannot believe, with everything in me, that not only am I a mother of two, but time has moved by so quickly and without my permission to find that those two precious babies of mine are going into first grade and kindergarten already.  I refuse to believe it actually.  It just seems wrong.   

Where did those days go of not being able to catch even two consecutive hours of sleep?  Of nursing?  Of just staring at my babies sleeping?  Of being so excited when they could finally eat cheerios?!  The first tooth?  The first step?  The first word?  Or of that first playgroup, though knowing full well the social interaction that I claimed I was instilling into my children was for me way more than for them?  Of my first look into the brilliance of Barney?  Of moving my children up the ranks in their Sunday school classes?  The first days of preschool?  Or their first friends?    

And now, I have talking, walking, thinking, praying, running, fully functioning children.  But there are still so many firsts.  I don’t have to let go of that quite yet.  Like uninitiated ‘I love you’s’.  And first prayers that they come up with.  And first discussions about something other than them.  (They’re beginning to understand that when they leave the room, the world does not get sucked into some planetary black hole…)   

I told my Sara the other day how desperately I wanted her to stay 6-&-1/2…because 7 just seems too grown up for me.  She said she understood how I felt, but she just had to keep growing.  And she’s right.  They do.  I can’t hold them back.  And I guess, really, when it comes down to it, I don’t want to hold them back.  I mean, if this is how amazing they both are at 6-&-1/2 and 5, I can’t wait to see how they turn out along the way. 

Ó Elisabeth K. Corcoran, 2003

Elisabeth K. Corcoran is the author of Calm in My Chaos: Encouragement for a Mom’s Weary Soul.  She is wife to Kevin, and mom to Sara, 6-&-1/2, and Jack, 5.  Her passion is encouraging women and she fulfills that through heading up the Women’s Ministries at Blackberry Creek Community Church in Aurora, IL and writing as much as she can.  Calm in My Chaos (2001) can be purchased directly through her publisher, Kregel Publications at #1-888-644-0500 or www.kregel.com, at amazon.com, or through your local Christian bookstore. This column is original and not excerpted from her book.