Call me a rebel because it’s not a Wednesday night, but I feel the urge to blog a little. It’s honestly a selfish reason… I don’t want to ever forget today.
Today in the middle of cleaning, in the middle of wrapping, in the middle of life, I had one of the amazing Melt-your-Mom-heart Moments. Those are the moments that make all the hard parts of parenting worthwhile.
It started simple enough… one of our wonderful neighbors/friends brought Makenzie an awesome (and incredibly generous) Christmas gift: the super adorable Disney Princess Klip Klop Stable. It’s so cute! She was napping when they dropped it off, but Denny and I were so excited to see her reaction that we woke her up early (after we played with it ourselves of course). Kenz came into the room and let out a shriek to see the awesome gift. The picture below highlights her joy. She just stood there with her little hands moving, and she had a huge smile on her face. It melted my heart into a million billion pieces.
Excited!
Kenzie played with it for a long time and didn’t even notice when I left the room briefly… When I came back it was as if I watched her transform from our baby to a little girl. Denny and I both snuck in the doorway and watched her picking up the little people and moving them around and babbling to them telling the ponies all about the storyline she was creating. It was the first time we ever saw her play like such a big girl.
So cute, and so amazing! There were tears in my eyes and there was a feeling of immense appreciation in my heart for what we have. Our little pumpkin is turning into a big girl one klip klop at a time.
For all the stress and the anxiety I’ve been feeling as I try to make Christmas “perfect” I was reminded tonight that it has nothing to do with perfection, It’s really about those super cool moments we get to spend with the little (and big) ones in our life we love the most.
Here’s to finding more of those moments in your holiday season!
Cheers,
Erin
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Love it! Those moments are the best…and with my big boy 4 years old now I am holding on to each one as tight as I can because he is growing so fast…