Wednesday, 29 September 2010

A moment of happiness

It's hard to be happy. I struggle with allowing myself to feel happy. I mean, how can you be happy when some of your children are dead? Really? It's just always there.

Last night I slept for 8 hours in a row for the first time in at least 8 months. Today I spent the morning with Beanie and Coccinelle. It was a beautiful crisp autumn morning. Coccinelle had a nice nap. When she woke up we went to watch an excavator move huge piles of earth into a dump truck from a house build site near us - something which made Beanie very happy! I took him to daycare - he starts in the late morning on Wednesdays. He likes listening to music in the car. I sang along to the song during the short drive. Coccinelle was busy making baby noises in her carseat.

I felt a moment of spontaneous happiness, one which came naturally and which wasn't weighed down by grief. It can be done. It just takes a very long time.

3 comments:

Scrappy_Lady said...

I'm so glad you were able to have some well-deserved happiness.

May many more happy moments find their way to you.

Ya Chun said...

Happiness is good. I think it honors our dead babies, allowing ourselves to really live.

Sara said...

I think I remember today's your birthday. So, if I'm right, Happy Birthday! I hope you and the babies, now kids!, are well.