Sometimes...

...after a happy morning, after you have dropped off your genius six-year-old at school filled with confidence about her upcoming spelling test, as you take the almost-not-a-baby out of his carseat at preschool and he smells like the apple cinnamon yogurt he ate for breakfast, like an apple dumpling you just want to eat up, you are struck by the perfection of your life. But it only happens sometimes.