So I know I talk about moments a lot on here but let’s be honest…. without them, what is life? What would be the incentive to getting up in the morning? Because for me, it’s the unplanned little moments that make a day a memory. That make a moment one for the books. No planning is required a lot of the time and you can’t get any better than that. Sweat pants + no plans + the ones you love = tiny, perfect little moments. And I don’t know about you, but I think this time of year just surges with them! I’m not sure if the magic of the holidays are what helps create them or the fact that it is growing colder out and we must find stuff to keep us entertained indoors as there is only so much cold you can endure in a days time for even the strongest of farmers, but I do know this…dang do I like it!

Saturday night and a messy house. The kids have practically rampaged through moms nerves and she’s on her last “go to the corner” before she pulls out the big guns and sends the next kid to try her to bed. The baby is crying because her sister can’t seem to leave her alone so she can finally shut her eyes for a quick cat nap and mom feels like she has a million things left to do on the bed time check list. Sound familiar? This was my Saturday night this past Saturday and it’s one we often repeat every week. But this time, a little moment that I live for was created. A moment that made you wish the night would go on forever despite the fact you were just about to lose it 3 minutes ago. And it wasn’t like something huge and magical happened either. It was simple. A simple moment that caused my heart to swell and gave me butterflies in my stomach. A moment that comes often when you become a wife and mom but not often enough because we know time never stands still and tomorrow will come with new little people problems that will cut your nerves one by one. But even though they come “often but not often enough”, you, as a mom, will sure take whatever you can get.

Like I said, Saturday night and a messy house. My husband was upstairs plugging in a heater in our daughters bedroom and the kids were running rampant downstairs. After a few minutes of “where’s dad”, my two oldest dart up the stairs to find him. And the start of the moment began. They found him rummaging through our storage closet and when he turned around and pulled out what he had been looking for, it was like Christmas morning to their tiny, little people souls. He pulled out a remote control fire truck that he had when he was kid. They all three rush downstairs and started to play. And as moms, we all know this next feeling, the feeling that lets you know you are exactly where you are supposed to be. No matter how terrible your day had been or how many times you almost lost your life. God has kept you here on this earth for this exact moment. God gave you these people to create this moment unknowingly. This teeny, tiny unplanned moment that somehow made you wish the world would stop so you could enjoy it just a touch longer. That gave you all the feels of your wedding day and birth of a child combined. And all of this came from dads old toy and a cold winter night.

Planned moments are also nice. The anticipation. The excitement that you can see building up in your kids and all who are involved. But there is one thing that makes unplanned moments just a bit greater than the planned. It’s the effort. Big moments take time, commitment, and effort. Little moments are effortless. They are easy. And this isn’t me saying only do little moments because they often just come to you and your life will be way less stressful. Heck no. Because the big moments are what set the little moments up for success. They are a necessity to the little, unplanned moments like a Saturday night in with an old fire truck. But I am saying let the little moments be easy. Don’t make 100 plans because your husband is actually in by 7 on a Saturday night. Let the nothing be everything to you. Let the night play out and it might be uneventful and you might have to send your kids to bed at 7:30. But it might also be wonderful. God seems to know when you need these tiny, unplanned moments the most. He knows when the pressures of being a wife and/or mom is getting to you and He knows the power of these little moments. Because like I said, these moments were created by Him to let you know that this is exactly where you are meant to be. So be there. In that moment. Sweat pants, mom bun, full sink of dirty dishes and all. Because as much as you love these moments, these are the moments your kids are going to remember and love too. The moments that they will go to school or the babysitters the next day to talk about. And guess what mom? You helped make it perfect too.

So here’s to the little moments we live for. May we be blessed with them. May we enjoy them. And may they forever stay easy and effortless.

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