Nothing else in this world quite like it

2 days ago, I was lying next to my little one in bed, listening to his heavy breathing, and trying to will myself to fall asleep too. It was 10pm at night, I was recounting my day - the good, the bad, the wonderful. And I felt the urge to write. But all I had was my iPhone next to me, so I wrote in my Notes and now I finally have some time to re-write it for my blog.

"Getting down on my knees for the umpteenth time today to clean up the mess beneath his high chair during dinner time, just as a sigh was about to escape my lips and growly, rumbly thoughts were circling dangerously in my mind, I looked up and I saw. I saw my son, staring down at me with the evening sun behind him and his trademark cheeky grin on his face.

I looked into his eyes and it suddenly occurred to me how bright and beautiful those peepers are. He was happy, cheerful, and completely carefree. It was like he opened the windows to his soul just for me. And the love, oh the love, that welled up in my heart as I turned to my man and exclaimed, "our son has such pretty pretty eyes!" 

Just like that, I forgot all about the sigh and the growly thoughts. They were no longer important, nor pertinent.

Because right at that very moment, for the chance to see that smile of his light up those pretty eyes, I would have gladly gotten down on my knees a million times over. Because in that little face, I see myself and my husband. I see love. I see joy. In its purest and simplest form. 

There is absolutely nothing else in this world quite like it."