Self-actualization

You are vibrant, joyous, and gloriously uncompromising.
You laugh or cry, accept or reject, do or don't, without apology or explanation.
Grown men compete for your favor, falling to their knees and offering treats to win your smile.
You eat only when you're hungry. You sleep when you're tired.
You sometimes spend an entire morning clutching your toes and rolling back and forth just because it's fun.
You'll try anything at least once, and you never pass up the opportunity to play in water.
You are wiser at six-and-a-half months than I am at... my age.

Sally Bacchetta - Freelance Writer
Freelance Writer
Parenting
Motherhood

Nirvana

Every bottle is clean and ready.
All of the laundry is folded and put away.
Every primary-colored piece of furniture in the house is freshly swabbed and dry.
All things chewy, squeaky, crinkly, rattly, squishy, squashy, clacky and boing-y are resting quietly.
The baby has been fed, burped, bathed and changed.
There are no dishes in the sink, no newspapers on the table, no crumbs or beds or empty ice trays needing attention.

There is only this moment. This shining, perfect moment.

Nobody move!

Sally Bacchetta - Freelance Writer
Freelance Writer
Parenting
Motherhood

The Path to Enlightenment

There is a Buddhist saying,
"When the student is ready the teacher will appear."

And you did.

Sally Bacchetta - Freelance Writer
Freelance Writer
Parenting
Motherhood