It's all too easy to get bogged down in the little things - in the petty minutiae of life.
It's all too easy to focus on the annoying, frustrating things. The stresses and the worries. The not-enoughs and the too-muches.
It's too easy to think life is hard and the days are long and the rewards are too few.
But the days aren't too long. Life, it seems, is far, far too short. And the ones we hold dear are only with us for the blink of an eye.
Parenthood has its trials and its challenges. But, in the end, it's an utter privilege. To love and be loved by a precious, precious little human being - new to the world and besotted with its wonders. This is the most marvellous gift we could ever be given. Not money. Not possessions. Not achievements. To love someone like this ... it's what matters. Love is what matters.
And it's easy to forget that, in this busy world, as you run from this place to that, wishing life could just be easier.
And then something happens - something horrible - that makes you remember just how lucky you are.
That something horrible happened today. Not to me, but to someone I've known for a long time. Someone I respect. Someone who has gone through the most unimaginable horrors and is the most courageous person I know for enduring them.
And because of that, I am counting my blessings, not my curses. I am holding my own little one close and telling her how much I love her again and again.
Every day I am grateful for Tiger. Today more so than ever.
Hold your little ones close, people. Hold everyone you love close. Because life is very, very short and it is those moments you have with the people you love that are the abiding things.They are the meaning of us.
~ Love, Miss Cackle x
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