I don’t know how many times in life I (along with many others I am sure) have said the words, “this was the hardest thing I had to go through”.  Every time the previous hard event seemed less significant than the most current event and many times the previous events were forgotten.  Over the years I have learned that life is always going to be filled with situations which seem like the hardest thing to get through.  For me right now the hardest thing has been Melodie’s recent surgery, perhaps it truly isn’t the hardest thing I experienced in life but the other things I fought through and they are just vanished memories.

Watching your baby unhappy is hard for any parent especially when you know there is nothing you can do for them.  For those that don’t know Melodie she can be a little dramatic, I can see her winning an Oscar already…”I would like to thank my parents for supporting me as I cried when I got a paper cut that seemed like the end of the world…”.  Drama queen or not what seems like dramatization to me may truly be the hardest thing experienced for her; it is her hardest event in life moment and she is allowed to have that.

Prior to this surgery my divorce seemed like the hardest thing in my life but I watched myself the past 2.5 weeks work together with my ex to take care of our daughter.  Nothing mattered but the care of Melodie, all the hardest moments I had experienced during the divorce process had vanished.

I watched and realized that yesterday’s hard moments many times become today’s proud moments…