A Leg Up

I’m sitting here with my leg up on the desk… Erk just left to go workout, then pick up the boys from Granny and Grampa’s house. The boys and I had a nice day here at home – there was some thought given to them heading to some friends from church’s house today but it didn’t work out. That wasn’t all bad; we really enjoyed a day of just doing… nothing. I tend to do this-that-and the other during the day when we’re home, but today I made a conscious decision to just enjoy the time we had together. It’s easy for me to get wrapped up in the day to day stuff that needs to be done (laundry, dishes, picking up), but sitting at the table and coloring for a while? We haven’t done that in SO long. While we were coloring, Jack asked me if we could play restaurant for lunch and if I would be their “waiter.” Funny :) That’s the stuff Meg and I used to do! So I ran thru the day’s special “peanut butter and jelly with Shrek fruit snacks…” and they were really cute about it. Mikie kept calling my name from the table, “Mommy!” Jack would correct him and tell him “that’s not Mommy, that’s our waiter Mike.”

We then hung outside for a while and then headed up for naps. I lay down and after a few minutes heard something downstairs. With Chloe here, it could have been Bean and her, but I figured it was Jack. So I called his name down the stairs and wouldn’t you know it wasn’t only Jack, Mikie’s face appeared from around the corner too. “Upstairs boys, and in your room.” Jack came up covering his ears thinking I was gonna yell, but I didn’t, I just told them they aren’t to play downstairs when Mommy is laying down (they TOTALLY know that rule) and that they lost the privilege of playing today – they had to take a nap. It worked! They both conked out for 2 hours! NICE! I took a snooze too with Chloe at my side and enjoyed a few minutes of GH before they got up. We then headed to Nanny and Papa’s and dropped Chloe off and then to Granny and Grampa’s house. And that leads up to where I am now, sitting here with my leg up on the desk :) I hope you had a good day today too! I think once the boys get home, this waiter mommy is headed to bed :)