You know those moments, in the midst of chaos, where you have a little love affair with your family?

I am in one of those moments now.

The girls are building Lego, the dude is giggling and dancing in the living room. Hubby is finishing off the dishes.  We have a vacation coming up, we have had a full and fabulous day together.

It is one of those brief moments where you can see everything come together, all the worries and stress depart to give you this picture of a perfectly happy family. It is a moment in the chaos, but it is the kind of moment that gets us through the rest of it.

Tonight there will be that gentle hidden smile behind the fatigue as I put kids to bed, fold the laundry and finish the packing. Tonight’s little moment of perfect will be enough to stretch this mamma through 3 hrs of ferry travel, 2hrs of driving and 13hrs of flights and connections this weekend. This will be enough to get me through a 9 year old who doesn’t want to go to soccer practice, or a 6yr old who doesn’t like “that” yogurt. . .  or a 3yr old who is just being a 3 yr old.

This little moment of perfect where my family relaxed into the moment of being themselves . . . I think these are the moments that us moms leap to, over the chaos, knowing that they are always a surprise and always ahead.

I am literally sighing with contentment. . .

(ps. Just so you know. I barely had this post saved when chaos errupted upstairs . . .  so yes, these moments are brief: very brief!)

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