Princess for a day

I did something yesterday I don't think I have ever done. I played with my daughter. I don't mean I have never played with my kids, but yesterday I threw caution to the wind and all day we spent chunks of time playing pretend. We pretended that Sleep Beauty was the guest of honor at a surprise party in her honor and we were getting ready for it all day. We drew pretend food. We laid a blanket on the floor and had a pretend fishing trip. We set a table for all the guests (all the other princesses of course.) We tried to have prince Eric help out (Liam) but he was not cooperating, so we quickly decided it was a girls' only party. By the end of the day we had planned quite an affair with pretend lemonade, pretend cake and pretend presents. After Liam went to bed we had the official "party". I wish you could see the look on Bethany's face when all the pretend guests showed up and we took turns serving them "food." It was the biggest smile I have EVER seen from her (christmas included) and it made we wonder why it takes something like cancer to make me start living. Why is it that we let life get in the way of living? I have had deep emotional thoughts as of late about what I am living for and why I am here on this earth. One of the first things on that list is my kids. I want to make more of this opportunities to throw caution to the wind and just be a princess once in a while. I will remember that day forever. I can't imagine real royalty would have felt any better than a mother and daughter eating "lego" cake and paper lemondade. It was the most delicious I have ever tasted.