Sometimes its true you really must stop and smell the roses, appreciating the little things so the "big picture" isnt as dark and ominous. Some days its those little smiles and unplanned giggles that get us through the day where we look back and smile again in memory.
For example, today my class was canceled so I ran errands lots and lots of errands. Getting pet food, printer paper, dropping off donations of children's clothes, and getting hours for next week at the soup kitchen. All this AFTER my doc appts this afternoon at the VA. At one of these appts i decide to decorate the drab and boring office with some pics i took from the kids latest field trip. That went well, in fact, it went awesome! it was if the room was painted for those photos and it gave a new depth and subtext to the discussion.
On my way home I made the decision i wanted ice cream. So i got some. after getting the kids from school (we call it that but its daycare), we arrive home and our daughter goes to the freezer gets out the ice cream, and proceeds to eat it from the container. WHY?? well she is happy and ice cream makes her happy so she is now super happy. Valid reasoning = Smile
Our son loves trains, he will stay up at night to play with them, and go to bed late, sleep with them, and talk about them. He decided today to drive his train across my face and tell me what he crossed. "mommy eyes, mommy nose, mommy other eye, mommy cheek...." He is only 2 and it made me SMILE.
My children are the root cause of 75% of my smiles daily and collectively. They are the reason i view the world as i do, a shift of how i had before.
I love them more then the sum of my existence.
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