{this moment}

As I lay in bed now, home from the hospital, and enjoying a home filled with baby Sydney loving, I'm thinking of a perfect moment last night.

It was late and Shea was tired and after another game of Phase 10 (our traditional hospital game) he snuggled up next to me in my bed. I asked him to stay beside me and sleep next to me, I needed comfort after a restless night the night before (still caught up in my thoughts of the traumatic labor experience). He lovingly held me close all night, and when Sydney stirred silently in her bassinet I scooped her up and relished the moments of us as three, close in the nights stillness.

I may have let a few tears escape me as I held onto the moment caught up in the warmth of pure love and peace, before doctors and nurses broke the quiet and began the day.

I kind of love the hospital stay after baby is born. And those moments with baby Sydney and Shea and I were precious and beautiful and will be kept forever in my mind.