Family

Every once in awhile, life hands us challenges that require us to step away from everything we have and decide what we're doing to keep it. What are we doing to deserve the things we love most in this world?

And sometimes its a simple and resounding silence. A moment when we realize that we've put the wrong things first without even knowing it. The fact of the matter is, as long as these three souls are linked to mine in this life there's not much more I need to have. The rest is just material. Unimportant. I could lose my job, my house, my car, the clothes off my back, but as long as these three are still here with me, we can make it.

Monday's Moment: So Lucky

 

I don't know if there's anything to be said, but I've been having a lot of moments lately. Those moments when you just want to squeeze your babies. I generally have that moment each time we drive passed the Children's Hospital, or see a commercial on television. Or when someone posts something on Facebook about a baby with a terminal diagnosis or a parent who isn't a parent at all is on the evening news.

 

And you look at your kids and you think, how did I get so lucky? And normally its quiet moments like this one, when Lock-a-Doodle slept longer then normal during his nap and it was time for dinner. I went in to wake him and he was sleeping so soundly.

 

 

 

Monday's Moment

My second born, my little fat boy, took his first steps this weekend. Unassisted, shakey little shuffling steps.

 

 

 

 What a perfect moment, and captured on film no less! I must say for all the bad aspects of the modern age and constant connection to phones and iPads and the internet, there is a positive. Our children will have an amazing wealth of moments to remember their childhoods by. I love looking at old photos and home videos of my time at home with my sisters and parents. There just isn't that much to look at. Hubby has even fewer photos and no video at all.