TIME SLOWED DOWN

I had one of those special moments in life today. While making dinner this evening, my daughter ran in from the other room and showed me her bottom-middle tooth was about to fall out. Now this would be the first baby tooth that she would lose—which also meant that this was the first baby tooth that I would be removing from anyone’s mouth.

To her credit, she was so excited and not at all turned off by the blood pooling in her mouth and around her gums. I was a bit queasy, but steadied myself to not distract from her well-earned excitement.

It was this moment when I seemed to be more in touch with the fabric of time that is always wrapping us in its warmth. Things felt slower, more natural, and I was consciously much more present. A beautiful moment.

After communicating with her about not licking my fingers when I was pulling on her tooth, we managed to work together for me to “pop” the tooth out of her mouth. Afterwards, she was giddy with joy as she ran to the mirror to look at her one-tooth-less smile.

#parentstr