Time Travel

Today I wish I could turn back the clock to this moment.

My baby and I were taking each other in. 

We had been so close for more than 10 months 

I had felt him move, breath, hiccup.

But we had never laid eyes on each other. 

Dylan had heard my voice 

floating through the fluid and the tangle of inside parts

but he had never seen my face. 

I looked at him with all the wonder a new mother feels and

I truly felt that THAT moment would last forever.

But this morning. 

As I dropped my baby off at the Toddler room. 

The PRE pre-school room.

The first of many drop-offs to

preschool, 

kindergarten, 

high school, 

college...

it all seems so fleeting.