A Gift..

I wanted to share a special gift that God surprised me with this week. It wasn't my birthday or a special holiday, just an ordinary Tuesday evening, just like any other evening I laid Sophia to sleep at 6:30 for the night. I usually am able to get a couple hours in to be productive and finish my to do's. At around 8:30 Sophia started wailing, this was not usual as she rarely wakes up so early after falling asleep yet I let her cry a couple minutes and then went in to assess the situation. Diaper check, temperature check, coziness check, full belly check. All checked out well and I left again. A couple minutes later she began wailing again. I thought that's strange yet this time something told me to go get her out of bed. I picked her up and she instantly calmed down, against babywise rules I took her out of her room ( I would normally just rock her back to sleep in the glider). Yet something was telling me to take her into bed with me. I sat with her and held her in my arms, she was still awake yet so at peace and so calm. She stared at me for several minutes and told me over and over again with her eyes, "Mommy, I love you". She was starting to fall asleep and I didn't want this moment to end so I placed her next to me and laid down to watch her sleep for as long as I could keep my eyes open. Two and half hours later I woke up and she was still sleeping peacefully next to me, I decided to now take her back to bed. Yet, what an awesome gift God gave me of those precious hours sleeping next to my beautiful Sophia. He must have known I really needed this, we get so caught up in life and as much as I never want to admit it they do grow up so fast. I will always cherish these little moments when time almost stands still.