Freeze Frame Moment….and where I found mine

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Freeze Frame MomentMy alarm goes off at an unfairly early hour and I rise up to start the preparation for the day. It’s a hospital day. Little lego lover #3 is medically complicated so we have quite a few hospital days. These can be long days and I never know what they will entail. I pack up the bags then take to getting everyone moving and eating, many times against their will. I can’t help but smile as we set out on our journey for the day. I love these days. No, seriously, sarcasm aside, I love these days. 

I have found my freeze frame moment at these appointments. You know the moment I mean, the one we all see in magazines, TV ads, Facebook posts, etc. The moments where a mom is completely consumed with her kids. They are often laughing or learning something, always perfectly staged.

When we are at whatever therapy, check-up, scan or clinic visit is on the books for the day, we often have lots of down time in the waiting room or in the exam room. We could be waiting on results, doctors could be running behind or maybe we were early and have time to spare (to be honest this has happened once in about 400 or so attempts, but I felt it was worth mentioning). I couldn’t be happier during this down time.

It is my freeze frame.

I have no to do list when we are at the hospital. I am not staring at piles of dishes or laundry that need tending to. I am not sitting at my computer doing work and returning emails. I am not prepping a meal or making a snack for the bottomless pits that live at my house. I am not distracted or tempted to be distracted (on an unrelated note, don’t be distracted when you have a 2 and 3 year old in a medical office). I am just there with my little lego lovers #2 and #3 and we get to really see each other. Often, I feel like it’s the first time I have clearly seen them in days. I actually look at them, instead of distractedly answer a question. They have my whole attention for the whole time and my patience seems limitless. We all have a great time. I always leave feeling re-connected with them and filled up. It doesn’t always last long, but there is always a beautifully staged mom-in-the-magazine moment when all three of us are laughing about something or learning something together. FREEZE FRAME.

These appointments have taught me the importance of putting it all aside and giving my kids all of me more often. I still struggle with it because THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO, but I make more of an effort now. Because who doesn’t love a good freeze frame?