Morning mayhem and hugs

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
..................................... Buddha

One of my favorite quotes.

When I was in graduate school I turned to this quote often. I told myself I had discovered my world via my passion for protecting and preserving our water resources. This was the entire focus of my heart and when I entered my professional life I felt complete.

Then I had a baby.

Now you might think I am going to go down the line of thinking that through becoming a mom I found my world. But really that’s not what happened. Through having my children I discovered the world beyond my world and that my true work is to better it through my own heart and by raising the hearts of my children to be full of compassion and love.

This morning was a crazy one. Currently, the morning is mine to handle getting two toddlers out the door. And these are two toddlers still riding the high of an exciting weekend with grandparents, birthday presents and way too much sugar in the form of frosting.

The Bear came running around the corner from the kitchen to the playroom and for lack of a better term she bit it and ended up on her bum. Her back hit the piano leg and she started to cry.

Bug, who was happily playing with his new checkers in the kitchen came to investigate the crying and actually got to her before I did. He pulled her up and hugged her. I came over to make it a group hug and the tears ended.

That moment though I felt like something was going right in a morning when we were running late, I couldn’t find Bear’s shoe and the cat vomited on the stairs.

I am doing my work to the best of my ability and my heart is fully invested in a Bug and a Bear who have shown me the world.