It was so wonderful to watch her experience something new and REALLY savor each moment.  She was focused on nothing but her new treat and the person who was supplying it.  It made me wonder what my life would be like if I could be so present in each moment instead of always looking ten steps ahead.  What if we all didn’t bring our phones everywhere so we could talk, text, email or manage social media 24/7?  What if instead of taking pictures of our lives and posting about them, we just lived them?  I am just as guilty of this as anyone and I LOVE sharing photos of Parker, so I’m not preaching. I’m simply wondering what if…  I know adults have more responsibilities than infants so we multitask.  I get that our longer lives have given us more experiences to flood our minds with thoughts.  But sitting across from my little girl in her high chair, I wondered what it felt like to be so thrilled with such simple pleasures and if I could be present enough to realize it….and then Parker proudly showed me her stash of cottage cheese in her mouth.  I stopped wondering.  I did take a picture of her though

-Jolynn Baca Jaekel has been a fitness professional for more than a decade. She just had her first child, Parker, with husband Rob last January. She and her family recently relocated from NYC to Washington D.C.