Yesterday I decided to make some cut-out Christmas cookies with the two older boys while Eden slept. We ran into a few problems: Eden didn't take a nap, Tristan woke up from his nap after a 1/2 hour and proceeded to scream for quite a while, the cookie dough kept breaking and numerous other glitches. We still made cookies and the boys are knock-out cookie decorators. That means they are very liberal with the sugar they pile/dump on dump. No sprinkling of sugar at this house - we are all about dumping sugar because the dough doesn't have enough sugar already.
In the midst of the mayhem and me questioning why I ever thought this was a good idea the boys started figuring out how many kids are in each family on my side. So....we went through all the cousins, aunts and uncles and came to the conclusion that we have the same amount of kids as Aunt Joy and Aunt Donna. Shane said, "We all have 4 kids in our families."
And then the thing that warmed my heart came right after. Judah replied, "Yes, but soon we will have 5 kids and then we will have the most. We are the lucky ones!!"
Did you hear that? Lucky ones??!!! You have to know what our last two weeks have been like around this house to really appreciate it. They haven't been very fun weeks for some reason. But in the midst of it, my son who seems to need to much time, attention, stimulation etc. from us as his parents feels lucky that we will be adding another one to our family. Made my heart sing!
2 comments:
oh yes, you are the lucky ones!! so cute.
Isn't the perspective of a child sometimes just what we need to be reminded of our blessings!? How sweet! I was just thinking of your boys today, and how Shane wouldn't take part in my last visit because he didn't want to say goodbye. They are good, dear boys (and Eden is too, I'm sure) and they had to learn that from you and Mark. Try to keep that in mind when you feel like you're unraveling more and more by the minute! Merry Christmas!
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