Moments

You know, until you have really small children (I'm talking infants here), you don't really realize how much each day matters.  People change over time, even kids change over time.  You can see a change in a few months or a year or a few years, but infants change in mere moments.  One day they are barely lifting their head and the very next day they are lifting it like a pro.  They haven't smiled once at you and then all of a sudden they are full of smiles all the time.  They even seem to grow overnight!!  It makes you realize in a way that nothing else can that every moment really does count no matter how cliche that sounds.  It makes you realize that each day really is a new day and a new chance to be something better.  Just because yesterday didn't go as well as you would have hoped it doesn't mean that today can't be the start of something new.  And that's the best part, everytime you fall down you really can pick yourself back up and try again.  When you are watching a little one change and grow every day you realize how much change can really occur in a matter of moments and you start to learn how to make each moment count for something.  I am not on a diet, I am making the right choice each time I choose to eat.  I do not have an excercise routine, I am making the choice to excercise each day that I can.  I am not on a mission to makeover my habits or clean my whole house, I am making a choice one moment at a time to clean this counter or unpack this box or fold this shirt (not even the whole pile of laundry but each item in each moment so that if I get interrupted as can so often happen when you have children I don't feel like I haven't gotten anything done).  Moments...each one really can make a difference in the course of a day, a month, a year, a life.