Picking up the crumbs...

Sometimes I get so tired of picking up cookie crumbs, cracker crumbs, muffin crumbs and that is just the food products. The toys, bowls, laundry, and all the other items that get pulled out, thrown about and hid, are a whole different exhaustion.

As I was wiping up pop-tart crumbs this morning I opened the cabinet under the sink to find a cloth napkin that looked as if it had been wadded up in a ball. I pulled it out with frustration, thinking ahhh just another item to pick-up, and to my surprise when I looked in the napkin there was a tiny little animal cracker. Then POP a light bulb came on and I remembered the other day when Alvie was pulling things out of that cabinet while she was having animal crackers for a snack, she said, "tired, tired mama.....night night". I thought at the time she was talking about herself and I just made a quick comment and dismissed it, but she was really putting that baby cookie bear to sleep in that napkin.

Afterwards I felt a bit disappointed that I missed a sweet moment in my daughters life, only because I was too busy with other things to slow down. Needless to say, today and hopefully for a while, I will delight in the fact that the crumbs and other stuff that finds its way to the floor of our home, is there for a reason.