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This morning, I woke up to two little cuddle bugs resting their warm, little heads on both my shoulders. They’d snuck into my bed in the early hours of the morning right after their dad had left for work. After embracing them and this beautiful moment for awhile, and giving them lots of hugs and kisses I told my daughter we had to hurry on out of bed so we’d get ready for school in time. “Just five more minutes mom…” she pleaded and pulled the covers up to our shoulders and we all felt warm and cozy. In my mind I quickly calculated the “opportunity cost” and realized that giving into her plead would probably make us late for school as we were already running a bit behind… yet it was still an easy sell.

Some of my favorite moments of being a mom is waking up exactly like this and getting to be this close to my children. It isn’t every day that I have both of them by me, feeling calm and relaxed at the exact same time, and still resting in the peaceful haziness of a good night’s sleep. There is something magical about being all snuggled up close under the same big cover. It feels safe and comforting, and so genuinely loving. It is almost as if nothing else exists; we are in our own little world.

Suddenly, our cat decided to jump on the bed to join the party and in that same instant, seemingly out of the blue, my little three-year-old gets up and roars loud like a dinosaur. Our cat, in absolute astonishment goes flying up into the air doing an astounding backwards flip before it lands on the floor. We all broke out laughing and then my three year old reenacted the entire scene about three more times to his sister’s pure joy and delight. Five minutes turned into fifteen and as hard as it was to step out of this magic, Ms. Logical Mom showed up and made sure we’d get going. And, so we went, off to seize a new day, late, yet feeling so happy and joyous, and still laughing about our cat’s acrobatic talents.

As I rest in the joyous memory of that beautiful morning I can’t help but realize how easy it would have been to miss out on that magical moment. Everything that brings love, joy and happiness into my life was right there in front of me. All I had to do was say YES to IT.

IT… is LIFE in a nutshell. The actual core of IT, the magic of your life that often comes at no cost at all yet brings you invaluable joy and happiness. We all want IT but we all too often tend to be too busy to get to IT.