My sister in law was asking me all of the typical new mommy questions and then she hit me with an unexpected and challenging one. She said “what’s your biggest regret”? What would you do differently?

I didn’t hesitate in my response because the regret was something I’d gone over in my mind a thousand times. I said “I want my minutes back”. She looked at me totally perplexed as I continued.

At that point in time my daughter was 15, totally into doing her own thing and didn’t have a lot of time for mom anymore. I missed our fun times together. I couldn’t even begin to count the number of times I’d said “honey just a minute mommy is” – (fill in the blank) over the years. Looking back, I’d realized what I had missed.