Simple Days

My sweet son, You are asleep in the living room and your daddy is upstairs in our loft doing a little work from home. We're listening to Amos Lee and enjoying an afternoon together. This album is so smooth and sweet...it makes me think about other simple days I've had. And you...right now your needs are so simple. Eat, sleep, change a diaper (or 20). But that won't always be the case and so I say these things to myself too. It's so very easy to let the noise of the world pull you from the beauty of it. Everything around you will yell so loudly to you to watch this TV show, buy this thing, jump on the computer, answer your phone. It's so rare that real simple moments find us. What did Ben Harper say?

People spend so much time
every single day
runnin' round all over town
givin' their forever away
But no, not me
I won't let my forever roam
and now I hope I can find
my forever a home

My boy, I so hope for you simple days. I know you will be so full of life and energy and abundance and I wish you all the joy and excitement life has to offer, because there is much of it. But some days a walk by the lake and a cup of coffee can be just as rewarding. I hope to have many simple days together my son. I love you. -Mom

P.S. This picture is not of you, as you can tell. It is the son of a another blogger (unfortunately I do not know her, but her photography is amazing, yes?) This is her son Ben and the pure simple joy she captured here seems appropriate.