“A blimp! A blimp, mommy!! I can’t believe it’s flying above our house!! It’s SOOOO cool!!!” Millana sang and danced around the yard with EJ jumping and following behind, chiming in with “Whoa! Wow! A blimp!!”

It was genuine excitement for the Verizon advertisement that flew above our house, and it was absolutely priceless.

Just moments before the hubby and I were going over our to-do list for the following week and talking about the work that needs to get done in the house, mostly decorating stuff, but work none the less. The kids dancing around over the blimp blew all that “work” chatter into the water and we got up and danced right along with them.

I often feel blessed to be able to experience the world through the eyes of LuLu and Little Man. Like, their reaction when a flower pops up from the soil they’ve been watering, seeing a butterfly, dumping water from bucket to bucket, beating an egg – all of these things are a wonder to them, and it makes me wonder when and why we tend not to always see them the same as life happens. I mean, it IS amazing to watch a butterfly and the colors are just gorgeous, and there’s even a simplistic beauty of water flowing from each glass, the brightness of the egg yolk and how it stays so perfectly round when it is first cracked.

Life is miraculous and I realize how to many people the simple things in life often “lose their luster”, unknowingly, just because it’s familiar. Think about it- even in relationships, after the “honeymoon” period, most couples fall into the rut of task-doing, sharing chores, not that these things aren’t important, but often the “romance” takes second place to who is dropping off the dry cleaning. And, in work or business, the first day on the job  the new gal is gung-ho over it and years later she gets into “greener grass” mode, thinking it would have been nice to go down a different road. Or that home that you rushed to put a bid in on, that car that drove like butter now 30k overdue for an oil change – once the “newness” wears off why is it easy to forget what was once so incredible?

The thing is, our spirit, our essence, our “being” wants us to see everything as amazing, just as we did when we were children. It can be that the experiences we have may change the way we view the world, but if we connect back to who we were born to be, let go of the past without judgment, and truly BE in this moment, eyes open wider, and we see things as if for the first time.

Share with me what is amazing to you in this moment. For me, in this moment, I feel it is incredible that my fingers can touch a keyboard and the letters are appearing on a screen where anyone, anywhere in the world with the internet can read them!