I am guilty of not being emotionally and mentally present with Sophia the past few weeks, just so much going through my mind, trying to work out how it all gets done within the non-neogtiable deadlines.

My beautiful child put paid to this state of mind a few days ago, when, instead of being with her I was on the computer. Sophs came in and said 'Mummy come to the living (or 'libbing') room'. I started to make some feeble protest so she held both her hands up to me and said 'Come on Mummy, now!'. She led me into the living room, said 'stop', turned to her CD player which she had paused, hit the 'play' button, and said 'Just dance!' as the Hokey Pokey started playing. So I let it all go and we danced. And danced. And danced some more. Crazy, dance like nobody is watching, laugh out loud with the joy of it all dancing. Sophs got my attention, which she so deserves, and I got a reminder of what is most important in my life.