No Joy diminished

On my mind this week is joy and wonder at how it is that your heart can grow bigger with each child, love you feel for one is felt for all.... before having two kids I didn't know how this was possible. This week 'little love' started walking and we are the proudest parents. Marvelling over how cute he is with each new step, word, action and look. Anyone would think he is the only child in the world to learn to walk but he isn't, he is the fourth one in this family alone, but the love, joy and pride I have felt this week is he same as I felt for all the others when they completed their milestones. No joy is diminished with each child.

 

I caught a moment last night when my husband and I were alone with 'Little love', Mr These Beautiful Days had taught him how to say "Dadda" and point to him and he was showing off. When it was just the three of us,  you could for a moment press rewind to 9 years ago and  the first time we had seen our baby play this game. But this is the fourth one and we still love it, it still brings such joy, we still look at all these little faces and wonder how are we so lucky to have these little people in our lives? What a privilege and honour!

 

There is a little girl who we have been thinking of a lot lately she hasn't got a lot of time left in this world. I was messaging her relative who is a good friend of mine last night. I said to her I hope you can find some little joys this week, those tiny moments of light in a terrible time. Its these little moments of joy captured not on film but in our hearts that burn the brightest even through our darkest times.

 So while I celebrate our joys, the wonder of life and little people I remember to put the phone down, turn away from the screens and soak it all up, gather the lights. These are the lights that cannot be diminished no mater what the future holds. These joys are the moments I will remember when I am old and thinking back to the lights of my life.
Happy Holidays for all that have started holidays today..... look for the joy to light the way!!