Today was one of those parenting days when all the little stuff falls away and all I could see was the big picture. My grown up girl who disappeared into the sandpit two minutes after arriving for orientation at preschool. My daughter who ran up to the girls she knows from dance class and joined in their games with no look back. Our girl who only needed to talk to us once the whole time we were there and that was to have a whinge to Daddy that the boys were trying to come into the cubby house. Later in the afternoon I lay on a shaded rug with a naked Stella and watched Amy run through the sprinkler in the hot sun and I realised all my parenting dreams have come true.

And yes, that is a picture of Amy in her photo frame.