a full heart

I'm sure by now that most of us have heard of #redballoonsforryan The movement to support Ryan's parents (and remember him) took up most of the images on the Explore page of IG yesterday... which gives me chills each time I think about it. When I first saw the posts, I wondered what they were thinking. Would it be even more heartbreaking to have IG blown up with posts about their sweet boy? Then I realized if I was in their place, I would want the world to remember Mia. God took the very best parts of Eric and me, and created our perfect daughter. I would be forever grateful for everyone that took the time to share her sweet memory!! I am blessed to be apart of such a wonderful community!

I had a different post planned for today but the heart breaking news and outpouring of love for Ryan's family yesterday had me singing a different tune. All of my plans for cleaning, blogging, etc were shut down as I snuggled my sleeping baby. When she woke up I made her favorite lunch, we played with her toys, I let her tear up her sock/blanket drawer and put on the mismatched socks she chose. We had a dance party and read lots of books. Because some things can't be avoided, I let her tear apart the Tupperware drawer while I prepared dinner and I let her pull out all of her plates as I unloaded the dishwasher, even though they all ended up on the floor. It really was okay. I'll catch up on my cleaning today... or tomorrow ;) It took two minutes to clean up the socks and blankets and I just reloaded the dishwasher with the newly dirty dishes. It was okay to just let Mia be a kid. It was okay for me to enjoy watching Mia play and not worry about anything on my to-do list!

Monday was another fun day of childhood for us! Mia and I went to the splash pad with friends and she had the best time playing in the water! She had a whole bag of goldfish to herself... and she even got to hold the bag and pull out the fishes herself!! (My child is often deprived of the good things of this world, ha ha!) It was a perfect day! I'm determined to have more good days like this than not this summer... I think summer 2014 is gonna be a good one! I don't want to take one second of our greatest blessing for granted. Eric and I could not be more grateful to be Mia's parents!