These blue sky moments are the moments when your newborn baby is asleep in your arms and you just look all over their face — that little nose, those eyelashes, those tiny ears — and you can’t help but thank God for their perfection.
These blue sky moments are the moments when your toddler runs over to give you the biggest hug and kiss on the nose, out of nowhere and you realize, “Hey, I must be doing a great job. I must be doing something right.”
Those blue skies are the moments of ordinary perfection. They’re ordinary and nothing extravagant like the trips to Disneyland or seeing your baby walk for the first time, but they sure are precious and they are oh-so-beautiful.
Motherhood is kind of like the sky and that’s really the best I can describe it.
Through the rainstorms, you can still [sometimes] see the sun shining through. And even if you can’t, you know the sunshine is coming. And through those rainstorms, you also get beautiful rainbows and amazingly colorful skies and all of the things you’d want to capture with your iPhone camera without skipping a beat. That is what motherhood is like. There are storms, don’t get me wrong, but there is so much beauty in motherhood each and every day.
Motherhood is kind of like the sky. We don’t know what’s out there but we do know there are endless possibilities. And just like the sky, we have the choice, as mothers, to interpret everything the way we choose. There’s so much beauty in rain — the look on Ava’s face as she jumps through muddy puddles is proof of that. You see, there’s beauty and happiness in everything. We just have to seek it.
A version of this post originally appeared at today.com, published with permission.
