~*Mommy Magic*~

So it's already started off to be a great day. It's funny how life happens in waves like that, isn't it? Some days you are just aching for something exciting or interesting to happen, and then there are those moments of negativity that seem never-ending. Well, this morning, when I was jolted awake at 4:30 by my daughter's coughing fits, it became a positive moment that I never wanted to end.

You see, these moments with her are so very rare, that I really didn't care that it was 4:30 a.m. and that I was surely not getting back to sleep. I quietly told my husband (who was sleeping on the sofa himself so as not to disturb my sleep with HIS coughing fits) that I was going to go lay with her and asked him to get her some water. He obliged, of course, being the amazing man that he is, while I went and snuggled up next to my little one.

She was shivering when I walked in, despite being completely snuggled up in her blankets and plenty warm to the touch. As soon as I laid down with her, she immediately stopped shaking and deeply sighed. I could've cried right then (if I was a crier), but instead I just kissed the back of her head and put my arms around her. My husband came in shortly after with a drink for her, which she sipped on for a bit and then gave back to me. I set it down, and we snuggled back up in bed...She didn't cough from then on. She breathed deeply, though a little congested, and was completely content with my being next to her.

These are the moments we live for as parents. Well, at least that's what I believe. It's those small moments in time that we wish we could hold onto forever, you know? It's moments like these that I see the magic in life, the Mommy Magic- how somehow when Mommy kisses that boo-boo, it's all better, no matter how much it was hurting just moments before she kissed it. I think, as adults, we get so wrapped up in logic and how things work that sometimes we need these moments to make us realize that magic does exist.

So thank you to my beautiful daughter for giving me that gift this morning, even if it was before the rooster crows. Thanks for showing me what's really important in life and that I am just as magical as I've always thought my mommy was...

Til next time...