Cherish This Time

So your baby is here!

What joy and what pleasure!

Now your life is expanding,

To make room for this treasure.

A darling newcomer

To have and to hold
His smiles are more precious

Than silver or gold.

He’ll demolish your schedule

Though she’s helpless and small;

he’ll make her needs known,

And he’ll rule over all.

See, a new parent’s works

just never quite done,

But you’ll never mind,

‘Cause it’s all so much fun.

When you hear his cute giggle

You’ll start "aahing" and "oohing,"

And he’ll soon reply back

By "ga ga" and "goo gooing."

Those big innocent eyes

See a world strange and new;

To make sense of it all

She’ll look only to you.

So cherish this time

Of miraculous things--

The excitement and wonder

That a new baby brings.

By Joanna Fuchs