The Ordinary Moments | Snuggles

This weeks ordinary moment actually came today, after a pretty stressful start to the afternoon I instantly put a negative outlook on the rest of the day, I think it's just what happens sometimes, one thing goes wrong and you think it's going to produce a dominos effect, sometimes it does but today it didn't. A lot of you will probably already know that we co sleep with Abbie, she sleeps in our bed at night and it works for us all..Well this afternoon she decided she only needed a 40 minute nap instead of her usual 2 hours, which made me super anxious and made my mind stress out with what the afternoon would bring, I was imagining a grumpy overtired toddler gripping onto my leg & crying for the whole avo, dinner was going to be almost impossible and I was going to need to cry into a pillow on more than one occasion...But I was pleasantly surprised.

We've had fun and games, as well as giggles and quiet time, we've had some time on the iPad and I even managed to clean the bathroom! Yay! She has been an angel to say the least and has made me feel at ease and anxiety free which is amazing! So our whole day has pretty much been ordinary, but there was one moment in particular that stood out for me the most..We were sat playing and I asked Abbie if she wanted a nap (obviously knowing she wasn't going to and it was my ploy to get the bathroom cleaned), she suddenly got excited and screamed YES! So we went upstairs and I got the black bag ready for the bathroom, I then got dragged into her room (literally), followed by Abbie climbing onto HER bed, covering herself with the duvet and saying "goodnight mummy"...seriously one of the cutest moments ever, not only is she learning that her room is for sleeping in but we then spent the next 40 minutes snuggled on the bed listening to the wind up music box and watching ourselves on the reverse camera on my phone! It's moments like that, that make me realize that the small things that go wrong shouldn't impact me so much, because for every thing that goes "wrong", 3 good things will happen in return which will make me forget the bad, being a parent is tough but amazing and I can't wait for all the ordinary moments we have to come, sometimes the smallest things mean the most and today was definitely one of those days! Oh and as I write this, Abbie came out with yet another sentence, after we played bouncy bouncy on the sofa earlier (don't tell Daddy), she came out with this.. "I want to bounce"...so perfectly, every letter pronounced perfectly, I won't lie, I welled up, it was amazing, and definitely was the cherry on top of a pretty good day in the end! :) Join in with the lovely Katie's Ordinary Moments linkup here :)

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