Live for the moment

I am part of a group called cafemom.com. It is a great group and I have met some really cool mamas and have received a lot of help with questions I've had. Well as I got on today, a mama wrote a post about how she just lost her 3 month old daughter to SIDS. She was with her baby all day, and as she was holding her, she realized that her baby gasped and then stopped breathing. Paramedics couldn't revive her and just like that her baby girl was taken from her. One minute she was holding her precious baby girl in her arms and the next moment she was gone. The replies of sympathy for this woman were incredible, but I also noticed that so many women replied that they too lost their baby in the same way. It absolutely broke my heart and totally put things in perspective. These women would do ANYTHING to be able to hold their babies again and here I sit complaining when Seth has a bad night. Seth didn't want to go to sleep last night until 9pm which is very strange for him. He just cried and cried and wouldn't stop until I went in the room with him. So for an hour and a half I cuddled with him and we even laid on the floor together where he finally fell asleep. I remember walking out of the room thinking how my night was shot and I didn't get to do anything that I needed to do. After reading these stories, it got me thinking that I really should start enjoying the moments more. I find myself rushing bath time or dinner time just to get to the next thing. For now on I am going to slow down and live in the moment and try to find joy in everything I do. Looking back, last night wasn't that bad...after all, I got an hour and a half of "cuddle time" with my little boy. Those are the moments I live for!