Some wonderful things that happened today in our family:
1. I picked up Kaleb early from daycare so he and I could have our special time. He chose to spend it having a snack on the couch (cream soda, cheez its with hummus, annies fruit snack and annies fruit roll up....okay so maybe dinner) and watching Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey together. I'm so very good with that, I adore that he is hooked on Cosmos right now, watching his 'seriously curious' brain (his term) soak up that information. I talked about what special time is and that Jacob gets his in the morning so I wanted Kaleb to have some and today was a good day for it. He shared that he really liked special time, and suggested "maybe we could do it where M W F Jacob gets picked up early, and then I get T Th, since Jacob needs you right now so he could have the more days" :) :) :) my heart melted, I said to Kaleb "honey, I love your thoughtfulness! You're right, Jacob is needing more attention right now while he works through his stuff, but that doesn't at all mean that you should get less attention, you know that, right?" and he said "Oh, I know, I get that. I'm just saying, Jacob needs you, like he actually needs your attention more right now, so he would have more days."
My sweet thoughtful kind generous observant loving son!! I grabbed him up in a hug and told him I loved him so very much, that he continues to find more and more ways to make my heart sing and that I'm the very luckiest ever to get to be his mommy. He smiled and shrugged it off and said "Okay, we're missing time with Cosmos!" and we got back to our show.
2. I was standing in the bedroom talking to Kyle and Jacob walked in and said "Mommy?" then kind of shook his head like a "wait, that's not what I meant" gesture and said "Wait, I mean, Daddy?" and then proceeded to ask Kyle for help getting a drink. This is amazing, that I was right there and he still went to Kyle with his need. What a beautiful sign of the trust and love Kyle has been so actively nurturing with the boys these past months. Another heart swoon :)
3. Jacob feeling Kaleb's paper cut (empathy, note to self to hopefully come finish this post another time)
About Me
- Miss Madly
- My husband, Kyle, and I are the proud and busy parents of two little boys, Kaleb and Jacob. Kaleb joined our family in December 2009 and we welcomed Jacob in April 2012. We both work full time outside the home, I am in the field of Learning and Development. I have a passion for studying the brain and how we learn, which translates beautifully to watching my boys grow up and discover their worlds. I'm also into learning about nutrition, herbalism, food-as-medicine, natural alternatives, and homeopahtic remedies. I hope to provide an uncut view of what life is really like as a working mom, minus the instagram filters and facebook bragging...I'll save that for facebook ;)
