Very often I am so consumed with the day-to-day chaos that is my life, that I don’t stop to take a moment and breathe. Get up, feed the baby, start a load of laundry, make coffee, quick shower, get dressed and run out the door – drop kids off at school and then hurry in to the office.
Work all day, stop on the way home and get the things I forgot at the grocery store earlier in the week. Eat dinner, kids’ homework, feed the baby, pay a bill or two, do the dishes, fall into bed too late and prepare to start all over again in the morning.
But every once in a while in the course of all that running around, I am forced to take a few moments and just relax. Last night my 3 month old baby Rachel was extra fussy. She was full and dry and burped, but just needed some extra cuddling. And so she and I sat in the rocking chair and rocked. We rocked and rocked and listened to a little Norah Jones
on the sounddock. I closed my eyes and whispered to her and smelled her sweet baby smell. I felt her soft fuzzy baby head resting against my cheek.
It was a few sweet, quiet moments in the midst of a busy day. All too soon the baby smell and the soft baby hair will be gone, and instead I will have a running, jumping, squirming little toddler. I am so blessed to have a few precious minutes in the day to slow down and appreciate the important things in life.