Moments

So I have so many moments every day that make life amazing, even when it's hard. I've decided I'm going to start adding them on my side columb. These are what I put in today, and I'll be adding as they occur. Thank goodness life has such great moments!

It’s the moments that take your breath away:
-It was the first night home from the hospital after a few days of being gone. I put the boys to bed, and Cameron kept saying over and over, “One more hug mommy.”

-I’d been with my mom in the hospital for almost two weeks, the day I got home Trev left on a fishing trip. He came home 4 days later, our first reunion at a public park surrounded by his whole family. I ran to him and jumped on him, wrapping my legs around him. We kissed and hugged and said I missed you for a few minutes. Nobody in the world existed except us.

-Cameron and I were reading a bedtime book. We always to pretend to eat the candy (picture). I started ‘eating’ the candy and he said, “No mommy, prayer first.” (We said a prayer, and then proceeded to pretend eat).

-Trevor was gone on a fishing trip with his brothers and Owen and I were sitting on the couch cuddling. He looked at me and grinned, “No, my daddy!” (A game that Trevor often initiates)

-My brother and I had been up all night in the hospital waiting room waiting for my mom to get out of surgery. We were tired and emotionally distraught. The next morning our dad called (who is my mom’s EX husband) and he said, “My prayers are with your mom and with you.”

-It was the first time my mom had been able to leave her hospital room at all in over a week and a half. We wheeled her out to the garden square. We sat around and told her all the funny things she said when she was on morphine. She laughed.

-Owen, “Oma at the doctor getting a Dora sticker for her ouch.” (Translation: doctor = hospital, Dora sticker = band-aid)

-I was trying on all of my swimming suits and tank tops to try to fashion some sort of pregnant cover-up. I walked out to show Trevor and Cameron ran up to me, “That’s cute!”

-I’m on the phone with Trevor having one of my few breakdowns while my mom was in the hospital. He pauses and says, “Honey, you and the baby are the most important things. Take care of that first.”

-At work we were talking about foreign countries that the women don’t come out much and aren’t allowed much say in anything. The general manger of the company looked at me (the only woman in the company) and said, “You’d do REAL well there Seantae!” And then couldn’t stop laughing.

-All four of us are sick. It’s the middle of the night (for the third night in a row) that Owen wakes up with a flamin’ fever. Half way through the night I give him to Trevor because I have to get some sleep. I wake up a couple hours later to check on them. I look over and they are both laying on their sides, facing me, same position, same features. Perfect.

-It’s midnight and I can’t stop crying, thinking all the bad things that I shouldn’t be about my mom’s health. Trev finally convinces me to call there to check on her. My 16 year old brother answers and talks to me. I cry harder and harder and he eventually calms me down. I say I’m ok and he can go to bed. He says, “Séance, I can talk to you as long as you need.”

-In the hospital the nurses called me, “The daughter that braids her mom’s hair.” Which I have to say is all because from the moment my mom could talk (through morphine even) she asked me to do as such.

-The cleaning lady in the hospital told my mom that she’d, “Never ever seen as much family support as you have.” (We kinda like her)

-We’re explaining to the boys about our upcoming family vacation to Jackson Hole and Yellowstone. We’re getting them excited by telling them about all of the animals that we’ll see. Cameron’s repeating them, “Elk, Moose, Eagle, Bear,” and then he adds, “and PENGUINS!”

-When we were pregnant with the boys we went to a big soccer game. We walked in late due to me being pregnant with two boys sitting on my bladder. Trev went ahead to find our seats. I come out of the tunnel thing and Trev's way ahead of me. He stops, turns around, and shouts so loud in front of everybody, "Honey! Right here!" (I know this one sounds wierd, but I love that he didn't bat an eye at our PDA pet name.)