Last updated on February 18th, 2017 at 10:59 am
I am a firm believer in taking each day like it’s your last. I am not saying I don’t forget to do this now and again but I like to think most days, I keep this in mind. Why? Well, for one thing you tend to tell the people around you how much you love them or give them that extra hug just in case. I never part from friends or family without telling them how much they mean to me in some way and hugging them goodbye. Every holiday, I try to make each moment count, grateful for the time we get to have away from home, making memories together. While our lives get busy and schedules get hectic, I like to think I stop at least once a day and appreciate the small things too. From the kids helping with laundry chores to playing a family card game, these ordinary moments make up our life but they also make up our memories too. I want my kids to look back at their childhood and be able to read about those very everyday moments here. Recall them and relive them again and again, being reminded of their lovely childhood and hopefully happy memories.
When I first started blogging when MM was just four weeks old, I wanted to document the big milestones and have a way to share them with family and friends back home. I wanted to have these documented to look back on when I was older and maybe started to forget them too. The longer I blog the more I realized actually I want to remember the little moments too. I probably will always remember a big birthday or family holiday we take together but what about making pancakes on a Sunday morning together? What about painting canvases, dancing around the kitchen with the kids, family walks in the park on the weekends? These are the small moments that tend to slip our memories as we age and yet probably when we spent the most quality time together with our loved ones.
I joined in with Katie’s #ordinarymoments linky for a long time and I loved how much it motivated me to capture the everyday stuff too. Somewhere in the last year, I got side tracked on what I wanted to share and document for my little family here. I wanted to start this year getting back to writing them letters, capture them as individuals and sharing our everyday stuff that makes up our family life. 
My two can be very loving and affectionate when they want to be. There isn’t a day they don’t want numerous kisses and hugs from me, daddy and even each other. They don’t ever go to bed without kissing and hugging everyone in the house and help tuck each other in at night. It’s during our playtimes they actually have taught me to stop and show or tell them how much I love them because they do that to me. We can be playing a card game and one of them will lean over and say, “I love you Mommy” or “Today is my favorite day”. Their little comments always coming from them when we are doing something simple together. I learn so much from them each and every day.
We have a little tradition that we call a trio kiss. My son actually started it. I was kissing my littlest one day and we took a photo doing it and right before the shutter went off he ran up and joined in our kissing photo. From then on he has randomly asked for “trio kisses” when we are out walking about or stop to have a cuddle. The kids think it’s absolutely hilarious and end in fits of laughter afterwards every time. It’s little things like this that I want to document and never forget. 
We like our everyday stuff to count as much as our big milestone celebrations so this year we are back to share our #ordinarymoments with you all and hope you will enjoy them once again too. Let’s remind ourselves it’s not how much we do or how busy we make ourselves, it’s how much quality time is spent with the ones we love the most in life.
What gorgeous photos – I think you’re right, it’s really important to capture the ordinary moments too – I’ve just started to join in with Katie and Donna this year to try and encourage me to do it more too 🙂
It really is hard sometimes to just stop and soak in the smallest thing like holding hands and walking together or bird watching whatever it is you would normally not pay attention to. Thanks hunny.
Aww the trio kiss is so cute! Gorgeous photos. x x
Thank you so much. Leave it for my son to always nickname something and create a new word. Trio kisses are the best.
I love the ordinary, and honestly it isn’t why I started my blog as like you say you will likely remember the milestones much more and I love that I have so many ignore these ordinary moments documented now too x
Oh I know what you mean. I only wish I had started years ago to document throughout my pregnancies and births too. So much of the small stuff is easily forgotten.
Aww what a lovely post Jenny. I agree with all of your words. It really is the little things that count and often make the biggest of memories. x
It’s nice to just step back and take them in or come back here and reread them to recall later when I am feeling forgetful of the small amazing things that we do together like a simple walk in the park or baking together.
I love the trio kiss 🙂 It’s good to appreciate the little things as well as the big.
Thanks lovely, my two little minions always with me by my side. I don’t know what I would do without them.
What a lovely post and beautiful photos #OrdinaryMoments
Thank you so much so kind of you to say. We had a lovely time together just strolling through the park.
Ah this is the reason I’m joining in with Donna and Katie’s Ordinary Moments again. Every year I start and then I never follow through but after a huge blogging blip last year, I’m absolutely determined to stick to it this year. As you say, those ordinary moments are things I want to remember just as much as the big milestones.
Oh that’s fab news hunny. I have loved Katie’s linky for years and it always reminds me to stop and appreciate what’s right in front of me, no matter how small it is. The kids constantly remind me to not forget those silly, happy, fun, little moments too. I look forward to reading yours this year too.
Jenny you are so right. It is the little moments that make up life and make life as a mother rich, but they are also the ones that easily slip from our memories. I love these pics and I love your new goals to getting back to basics and remembering the ordinary moments! x #ordinarymoments
Thanks Mary so much. It’s good to be reminded and sometimes start right back at the beginning. I look forward to it this year again.
Yes that quality time, those ordinary moments its those memories that fade and are so easy to pass by. However they are almost the most important. Lovely too see you back writing these posts and i look forward to more x
Thanks Gemma, that means a lot. It’s been a tough year last year and it’s made me revaluate everything and realize I need to start back at the basics and get back to documented the things I am passionate about as much as the big stuff too. You are right those are the most important memories to write down.
I love the trio kiss, that is just so cute. Gorgeous photos. The ordinary moments are definitely the moments that I want to capture and remember forever. They are the moments that bring me the biggest smiles when I look back x
Thanks Laura, I couldn’t agree more with you . Those are the moments that make me happiest too. They are the ones that are easily forgotten and I panic sometimes thinking I won’t remember watching them laugh with their toys, or cuddle on the sofa those moments that in the moment I feel like I won the lottery and yet somehow we forget them as years go by.
Gorgeous post Jenny – I love the trio kiss. I think the ordinary moments, sometimes the ones that at the time can almost seem mundane as we do them so often, will be the ones we want to remember xx
I completely agree Gemma so true. Thanks for your kind comments darling means a lot. I am loving getting back to the basics.
Oh they are gorgeous photos – and I agree with you completely about how the big milestones will be the easy bit to remember, it’s the little moments that even know the ones from the early days seem a memory, and I’m glad I can go back and read about what we got up to – and the pictures of the kids emptying spaghetti over their hair!!
Exactly hun, somehow these amazing memories fade even though it’s when we feel like we won the lottery in the moment watching. Catch 22 isn’t it? I am so grateful for being able to document them here to look back on. Thanks lovely.
Ah look at all the love bursting out of your pictures!! You take beautiful shots Jenny. I couldn’t agree more with your words. I try and live by a similar ethos and tell my family how loved they as often as I can.
Thanks Heledd you are so kind and way too nice on the photos. It was lovely to get out with the kids and play and just be together. KA did a wonderful job on this snap too. 🙂 Nice to have friends to help out too.
Oh Jenny I wholeheartedly agree with everything you’ve said here. I really need to start capturing my everyday moments more often because I want to remember those things, like you said big events will stick in your memory but the small things are easily lost. I hope this year to blog more about the every day.
Love your photos and the story behind the trio kiss xx
Oh thanks so much lovely. That’s so sweet of you. Its so true we can get wrapped up in our lives so much and forget those little ordinary moments that make us smile and feel on top of the world and yet we don’t document them as much as the big milestones that we are more likely to remember anyways. Good luck with capturing though and thank you for your compliments.
Gorgeous photos and such a lovely post Jenny, I think sometimes it’s so easy to forget all the little moments that actually mean so much and the ones that we will miss when our babies are too old to enjoy them. xx
It really is and I really did get side tracked somehow last year and lost my blogging way and I am hoping and praying I have found it and get back to those moments that count. Stopping more to take in more if you know what I mean. Thanks hunny.
Oh that is just the cutest thing!
Life is too short… I’m glad you’re making the most of it and I’m loving the trio kiss…adorable! xx
Such gorgeous pictures of you three. I love how sweet your little ones are, they are just so affectionate xx
I am EXACTLY the same about saying goodbye to people!! My boy used to leave the house sometimes without telling me and I’d be LIVID with him!! After 20 years with me, he knows better than to do that these days!!! Love the trio kiss — so sweet! xx
Oh lovely these photos are just gorgeous. I remember joining in with Katie’s link and seeing your posts every week and missing them when you slowed. I am glad to see you back and this trio of kisses is adorable. Hope you have a great weekend #TheOrdinaryMoments
YAY! So glad you’re linking up again and I love your attitude to treating each day like it’s your last. I think we all need to do that a bit more. Love the trio kiss – you are such a cute family! x
Ah trio kisses! How adorable 🙂 I’m wanting to join in with #theordinarymoments a lot more this year too. Those posts have been the most precious to me as I look back at my blog posts. They never fail to make me smile
I love this post and will share it where I can. Enjoying everyday moments is so important as it’s what makes up most of our lives! I am a big believer in making sure each time I part from the kids that we say goodbye and take time to have a hug. The morning school run may be absolutely manic but I won’t let them go without a reminder that I love them!
It really is what makes up our lives, our memories, our personalities and we glance over it way too much in life. I think society is just becoming busier and busier and it will be harder to even enjoy the little moments. Life is like a big blur. Ahh that’s so sweet hunny just shows what an amazing parent you are.