Simple Pleasures

Let me tell you about today... first day back to school after a delicious four days off, lost my voice with a class of kids that you just can't lose it with, picked up my little man feeling exhausted and irritable, came home craving chinese food leftover that my brother in law ate ALL of, fed the baby, scrounged up some turkey (for the 5th night in a row), watched as the baby picked up my glass of diet coke and dumped the contents on the hardwood floors, proceeded to watch as the baby smashed said glass on said hardwood floors, got aggravated, changed diaper, put baby to bed...

and then, this moment of bliss.

As I was getting ready to hoist my rapidly chunking toddler into his crib, I asked, "Do you want mommy to rock you for a while?" To which he responded, "Okay."

It's been months, maybe even a YEAR, since I rocked a lively baby into complete submission.

We talked for a couple minutes, we sang multiple rounds of "You are my Sunshine" (our personal favorite) to which Houston continually asked after my raspy rendition, "More?"

And then he was asleep. It took all of 7 minutes. But it was bliss at the end of an otherwise disaster of a day. God, I need to figure out how to get more of this in my life...

What simple pleasures do you have in your life that prevent mental breakdowns? Chocolate? Wine? Baby loving? Do share!

I need to get some of these Etsy prints in my life.