Precious moments. We’ve all had them—those moments that make your heart catch every time you remember them. No matter how often you revisit them, they never get stale or lose their power. Tender or funny, poignant or inspiring, they fortify us against toddler tantrums and pubescent (and pre-school) power struggles.
Leave a comment sharing your moment—or, if you’re feeling ambitious enough to write a whole post (or want to link from your own blog), email me and I’ll use your story as the moment of the day.
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Today’s story comes from Sarah, who says:
Funny story:
We are discussing Halloween and All Saints Day this week at our house. While William was in school Monday, I read the stories of St. Andrew and St. Elizabeth to Andrew and Elizabeth (Elizabeth wasn’t really listening…). So when William came home Andrew was telling him all about them while I was cooking dinner. William started speculating about St. William. There is a St. William, but I don’t know his story by heart and I was cooking so I told William I would have to look it up later. Well, William continues speculating. I’ve noticed he talks to himself a lot now, maybe because Mommy talks to herself a lot or maybe because nobody listens… Anyway, I was listening this time. “I wonder if St. William was an astronaut or maybe he was a great scientist…”
Made Mommy smile. Maybe.
Thanks Kate.
For people who don’t know, William wants to be an astronaut when he grows up and he loves science. 
I swear I plan to participate in this Kathleen! I keep trying to think of a good story and I just can’t come up with one! Keep it up though, I enjoy them!
I don’t know, I think picnics are a pretty special thing.
Kathleen,
So glad you stopped by so I could find you. I browsed your site a bit; congratulations on your publications. I’m a writer too.
I also saw that one of your children has Down Syndrome. I’m actually posting a story on Monday about a mom whose daugther has Downs. When she told me the story, it touched my heart so much that I had to write about it.
You have a lovely site/blog!
Thanks, Genny! I’ll look forward to reading the story on Monday. I’m always glad when people outside the DS community acknowledge/share stories, because I feel that there’s such a wall between the “special needs” community and everyone else…and those walls cause so much fear, and lead to the high abortion rate among prenatal diagnoses.