When Time Stood Still

When I visited the Greenwich Royal Observatory, they had an exhibit that asked an interesting question: "When was a time that time stood still for you?" They had slips of paper available to answer this question and people from all over the world did just that. When I read the question, there was a time that immediately came to my mind, so I filled out a slip too.

My moment when time stood still was the morning after Annabelle was born. She had woken me up for one of many overnight feedings on her first night so I sat quietly in the bed with the lights out, Annabelle in my arms half-sleeping/half-eating, and Keith sleeping silently in the pull-out chair next to us. As I sat there with my newborn baby, I noticed that the sunrise was just beginning. Although I was exhausted, instead of calling the nurse back into the room to take Annabelle back to the nursery so that I could sleep, I sat there and held my baby in my arms, telling her about the beautiful sunrise over the ocean that I was able to see from my hospital room window. I told her that it was only the first of many sunrises that we would share throughout our lifetime together, and how happy I was that she was there to share this special one with me. I even held her up to see it for herself despite the fact that I knew that she could only see about a foot in front of her face. Because this happened in a foggy moment between "naps", I don't know exactly how long we actually sat there, it could have been 5 minutes or it could have been an hour, but it doesn't really matter because for me, time stood still that morning.

I know I don't get a lot of comments on this blog, but if you would like to submit your own "Time Stood Still for Me" moment, I'd love to read it!