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This post has been scheduled for quite some time now, but it honestly couldn’t have come on a better day.  I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather since Sunday, and with a toddler, growing bump, and Fashion Week craziness going on, it’s taken me much longer than usual to get my energy back.  Writing about Cora and her beautiful little heart makes me feel a thousand times better though, no matter what.

With the language explosion that we’ve been seeing over the past few months with that rambunctious little girl, one of the things that I love is really getting to see how she perceives the world.  How does it appear when she peeks out from those long eyelashes and takes in everything that’s around her.  It’s really fascinating as a parent (and a psychology minor back in the day), not to mention extremely cute.  Her latest thing is announcing every morning, without fail, that the sun came back!  When we’re loading up in the car, rushed and crazed trying to get to school on time, she glances up in the sky and can’t wait to tell me that strange bright orb has returned – again!  Each day she has more excitement about this tiny little aspect of the world that most of us don’t even notice anymore,  than I have throughout my entire week.

It’s also a kick in the pants when I start feeling sorry for myself, about anything really, to realize that the sun did indeed come back.  It doesn’t matter what took place yesterday, how utterly and completely I may have failed as a mother, Christian, wife, daughter, etc: the sun still showed up in the sky.  A new day is still here, it’s still full of opportunity, it just takes a quick glance to the heavens to see it.  Cora may not know that she’s inspired such deep thoughts in her mother, but sometimes it’s the honesty we hear from children that makes us grasp what we really need to understand.

So how’s your day going? Did you stub your toe when you got out of bed? Hit traffic on your way in to the office? Snap at your kids when they took forever to get their shoes on? Take a deep breath.  Look out your window.  It’s a bit cloudy in San Antonio today, but rest assured: the sun came back.  It will come back tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that.  All we have to do is keep showing up, trying to be better each time we rise to greet its warm welcome in the morning.

XO,

A